PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory
Document Summary
Relaionship between language and thought: piaget thought precedes language development. Thought evident in sensorimotor period: vygotsky language and thought develop together, first atempts to speak are eforts to establish and maintain social contact social speech. 3-4 years old: children use language as a tool to organize thoughts. Focusing on some informaion while ignoring other informaion: coninuous performance task. Push a buton when target object appears: errors of omission (distracibility), errors of commission (impulsivity), correct detecion. Improvements in atenion linked to maturaion of the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Also afected by the child"s environment and experience with parents. Errors on impulsivity and atenion tasks by age. Sensory memory and working/short-term memory: requires atending and encoding informaion. Autobiographical memory: begins around age 4, development of memory in early childhood, language development. Disinctly human trait to develop complex rule-governed language in early childhood. Gap between lower and higher ses starts early. During early childhood children master a number of mathemaical concepts.
