PSYC 2290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Episodic Memory, Metacognition

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: proulx

Document Summary

The length of memory improves with age. Hippocampus and amygdala not fully developed until about two years. Prefrontal cortex development assists memory as well. Elaboration (linking things you remember to what you already know) Can be visual, good for episodic memories. External memory aids (writing, memory are more efficient) Metacognition (understanding how you think about things, and understanding connection between goals and there are strategies, and monitoring strategies), meta memory (informal understanding of memory and how it works) Networks of knowledge of concepts: categories, relationships between categories, properties of concepts, scripts. Storing information verbatim or by the gist. Autobiographical memories (form at 3, and won"t remember events after age 3) Language skills and sense of self solidifies these memories. Personal timeline: once children learn language it reorganizes how they learn things. Distortions (their memories are vulnerable to distortions) Limitations source monitoring skills - where they got the information.