PSYC 352 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Model, Dishabituation, The Mousetrap

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 352
• Professor: Stanka A Fitneva

Document Summary

Infants will look longer at new stimulus than they will at one they recognize: when memory traces strong. If memory strong they prefer novel stimulus, but prefer old stimulus if memory weakens: reasoning that infants want to maximize amount of information they can get. If memory for something strong, makes sense to look at new thing and see what information you can gather about it, see if it"s important. Infantile amnesia: phenomenon whereby most people cannot remember autobiographical memories from infancy and early childhood: adults encode memories linguistically. Infants show an early-emerging ability to acquire and retain long-term memories: ability to make and recall these memories increases with age and brain maturation, many of these memories inaccessible to adults due to infantile amnesia. Implicit memory doesn"t have to undergo as much development during infancy and childhood as explicit memory does. Is automatic, relies on evolutionarily older brain regions, young children perform similarly to older children.