Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Preadolescence, Recognition Memory, Metamemory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Recognition memory ability to identify whether a stimulus has previously been encountered. Implicit memory non-conscious recollections of how to do something behaviorally: e. g. learning to use a spoon to eat serial or learning how to ride a bike. The child may have little awareness of all the small improvements that have taken place in those skills over time. Studying memory in infants: presents challenges because infants do not speak, two techniques used. Operant conditioning: the habituation procedure paired-comparison procedure. A visual stimulus (photo of a human face or a geometric figure) is presented to the infant for a period of time. On a subsequent trial, the same stimulus is paired with a completely new item and the time the infant spends looking at each picture is recorded. Infants typically look longer at the novel stimulus than at the familiar one. Suggests that they remember the familiar item.