Question

Discuss development of memory in infancy and toddlerhood, including recognition, recall, and short-term and long term retention

Answer 1

Ans) Memory capacity in infancy and toddlerhood:

- Operant conditioning (teach them to kick a mobile to turn it on i.e. and shows that duration of memory increases with age)
habituation techniques

- Recognition- noticing when a stimulus is identical/similar to one previously experienced
- Recall- remembering something that is not present
(requires mental representation - you must generate a mental image of the past experience)
- Recall improves with age!
- Long term recall depends on neural connections in
CEREBRAL CORTEX
PREFRONTAL CORTEX but overall babies can do both recognition and recall! (middle of first year is usually marker for recall!)

Sensory register, short term memory store, long term memory store
- Information flows through each and mental strategies are used to operate and transform it and increase chance of retaining.
- Sensory register: sights and sounds are represented and stored breifly if relevant then selected by attention (attended to) and moves on, if not, decays

- STM/Working Memory: where we retain attended to info briefly while actively "working" on it,thats why its also called working memory as this is where info is manipulated and used to solve problems (when info from LTM is being actively used then it goes back to STM).

of effectively processed in WM/STM, info will go to LTM (that depends on memory strategies applied and the info itself)

LTM: unlimited, permanent knowledge base
central executive: conscious, reflective PART OF WM that directs flow of info, decides what is attended to, and controls the mental strategies.