Memory in Infants
Highlights the fact that developmental processes continue throughout maturity.
Lifespan Approach to Development
The act of attempting to determine where a certain memory came from
Source Monitoring
Elderly adults frequently respond to cognitive activities more slowly than younger people which is commonly known as _______.
Cognitive Slowing
A mobile tied to a child's foot is used to examine cognition in babies as a nonverbal memory test.
Conjugate Reinforcement Technique
Activities that we employ consciously and with a purpose to enhance our memory which is not typically developed in children until elementary school.
Memory Strategies
Adults who are older tend to be less dependent on context clues (such as the location they were at when they heard something).
Contextual-Cues Hypothesis
At what age are infants able to create an association between two objects even without seeing the object together simultaneously
6 months
The issue of ineffectively employing memory techniques; usually found in younger children.
Utilization Deficiency
List the four differences that affect elderly people's long term-memory.
1) Prospective Memory, 2) Implicit Memory, 3) Recognition Memory, 4) Explicit Recall Memory
The experimental study that discovered infants can recognize and acknowledge their mothers voice from within the womb.
Kisilevsky et al. (2003)
The experimental study that researched children's eyewitness testimonies and found that children who were placed in the control group were accurate in their description of a scene; whereas children in the stereotype and suggestion conditions claimed to have seen things that never occurred.
Leichtman & Ceci (1995)
The experimental study that researched elderly individuals ability to read familiar and unfamiliar letter sequences and their ability to recall them later.
Light and Colleagues (1995)
The researchers who conducted a study on infants to see whether they can remember actions they were taught after a delay and found that context matters.
Rovee and Collier
The experimental study that researched normal developing children vs. children with intellectual abilities ranging in ages; found that older children had better memory recall and normally developed children answered more correctly.
Henry and Gudjonsson (2007)
The experimental study that researched elderly people's memory to a robbery video and found that adults remembered less younger individuals.
Aizpurua and colleagues (2009)