CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Childhood Amnesia, Problem Set, Working Memory
10 Jan 2017
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Social learning summary: children learn to a great deal from watching and listening to others o but they are selective, have biases that: The processes related to memory: encoding o mentally representing information. Tied to attention (as it determines what you consider the most important. People encode information that draws their attention or that they consider important. They fail to encode a great deal of information: storage o storing encoded information, retrieval o finding a stored memory. Working memory: adults have about 7 as the limit of things they can retain at once. 2 buckets, 3 crackers in one and 2 into other, baby crawls to the one that has more. The format of memory changes so that it is impossible to access the old format (least likely) The late maturation of certain brain structures (for example, hippocampus) limit early storage. Differences in the types of cues that trigger memory retrieval limit later recollection o enhancing infant autobiographical memory.
