L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Autobiographical Memory, Childhood Amnesia, Working Memory
5 Mar 2019
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Information processing approach, components that change over time. Development as much more of a continuous process than piagetian, which is more quantitative as opposed to qualitative piagetian: working memory capacity gets larger over time, continuous v. discontinuous (information processing v. piagetian) Memory: autobiographical memory memories about yourself from the past. People argue these two things co-occurring is what allows autobiographical memory to happen) Infantile amnesia our inability to recall stuff before age 2. Differed imitation, children could represent stuff symbolically, also a sign of memory because jacqueline could hold memory to replicate it the next day, end of sensorimotor stage. Leichtman and ceci (1995: do stereotypes and suggestions influence preschoolers" reports, subjects: 3-4 year olds, 4 different groups, control group, stereotypes group, suggestions, stereotypes plus suggestions, phase 1. Tomorrow we will have a visitor. tomorrow we will have a visitor named sam, and he is nice but clumsy, told 3 times a day: phase 2.
