Vocabulary
Infants look selectively at novel stimuli over familiar stimuli
What is Visual Recognition?
Mimicking the actions of another
What is Imitation?
Reminding oneself of things that need to be remembered,rehearsing unlearned information.
What is memory strategies?
Examination of real-life trauma in children.
What is naturalistic settings?
A high-magnitude judgement followed by a correct answer.
What is accurate?
Amount of information that can be stored in working memory.
What is Memory capacity?
Memory of individual events from our lives.
What is Episodic memory?
Older children have a larger buffer in which to store information than do younger children.
What is Improved working memory capacity?
The experience of retrieving a memory that is mostly visual or experienced primarily as a sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
Develop as early as two years of age.
When Memory strategies develop?
Our knowledge and awareness of our own memory processes.
What is Metamemory?
Bias to look at things that are new.
What is Novelty preference?
Ability to screen out irrelevant information.
What is Working memory efficiency?
Connecting the new to-be-learned material to well-learned material, by looking for meaningful connections between the two.
What is elaboration?
Seeing if an infant kicks the mobile when its placed again in the crib.
Conjugate reinforcement technique
People's overestimating the likelihood that they will remember a to-be-learned item or set of items.
What is Overconfidence in judgments?
Talk between a parent and a child concerning past events.
What is Memory Conversations?
Memory improves in young children because of the development of conscious activities a child engages in to assist the remembering of information.
What is Memory strategies view?
Ability to use metacognitive knowledge or experience to influence learning behavior.
What is Metacognitive control?
Understanding of our own minds
What is metacognition?
Infants suck a pacifier differentially in the presence of a novel stimulus compared to a familiar stimulus.
What is Nonnutritive Sucking?
The awareness that other individuals have separate states of awareness different from that of our own.
What is Theory of mind?
Memory improves in young children because of increases in speed and efficiency in learning new information and storing it in long-term memory.
What is Memory efficiency view?
Ribbon is attached to the infant's foot and eventually will be attached to a mobile placed overhead. Kicking behavior is observed to measure learning and memory.
What is Conjugate reinforcement technique?
Lead to children with better autobiographical memory.
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