Baby Brainpower
These memory tasks show infants can remember how to make a mobile movement by kicking.
What is the conjugate reinforcement technique?
Children improve this short-term memory system, which includes the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad, as they age.
What is working memory?
On memory tasks that require manipulation or dual-tasking, older adults tend to show deficits in this cognitive capacity.
What is working memory?
This method helped researchers discover that three-day-old infants recognize their mother's voice.
What is prenatal auditory recognition testing?
This type of memory improves during childhood and refers to remembering experiences related to oneself.
What is autobiographical memory?
This memory remains stable with age and includes tasks like identifying previously seen words.
What is recognition memory?
Infants as young as six months can form associations between objects, demonstrating this kind of memory.
What is long-term memory?
Children’s incorrect belief that they actually performed an imagined action demonstrates errors in this.
What is source monitoring?
This phenomenon occurs when children apply a regular rule (like adding -ed) to an irregular verb, like saying “runned.”
What is overregularization?
This term refers to how environmental familiarity (such as crib liners) improves infant recall.
What is context-dependent memory?
A common overconfidence in young children leads them to believe they remember better than they actually do, reflecting flaws in this metacognitive skill.
What is metamemory?
Infants as young as four months can recognize their own names and distinguish them from other names, showing early development of this.
What is speech perception?
According to research, this memory effect seen in adults also helps infants remember better when practice is spaced out.
What is the spacing effect?
This term describes when children are taught memory strategies but still fail to use them effectively.
What is utilization deficiency?
This form of child-friendly communication uses high pitch, repetition, and simplified vocabulary to support language acquisition.
What is child-directed speech?