Memory
Memory starts by engaging
What are your 5 senses.
Genes and Environment describe
What is nature v. nurture.
You develop these as you gete older; your brain "prunes" as you grow
Studies have shown that this type of envinroment leads to better brain cells
What is enriched
The 4 stages of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
Hearing the word rabit and then seeing the visual of the animal in your mind before spelling the word is
What is priming
Studies have shown that after birth, infants can ______________ ______ demonstrating that memories can be formed during pre-natal development.
What is remember sound
This concept describes why we cannot remember things from infancy.
What is infantile amnesia.
This theorists believes that children are active thinkings whose minds develop through different strages.
Who is Piaget
Awarenbess that things continue to exist even when not percieved is called
What is Object Permanence.
Our two memory systems:
What are automatic and effortful?
Newborns arrive with _____ ________ ______ that support survival: sucking, tonguing, swallowing, and breathing
What are automatic reflex responses
This is developed during adolescence and is built on cognitibve development
What is moral reasoning?
People's ideas about their own and others' mental states (feelings, perception, thoughts); the cognitive ability to understand that other people have beliefs, desires, intentions, etc.
What is Theory of Mind
Young children have difficulty perceiving things from another's perspective; this can come back around during adolesence.
What is egocentrism.
Encoding failute, storage decay, retrieval failure, interference are all examples of
What is forgetting
Starts with physical beginnings of sexual maturity and ends with social independence; Can be a time of diminishing parental control, need for social acceptance, and often social disconnection
What is adolescence.
This part of your brain is associated with memoy trace.
What is the amygdala?
A child is distressed when their parent leaves, and seeks to punish the parent by displaying overt feelings such as anger.
What is anxious-resistant attachment style.
During this stage, children gain mental operations that enable them to think logicalled about concrete events.
What is concrete operational.
Forgetting curves is a gradual fading of the physical memory trace
What is storage decay
Concepts of social development in adulthood include
What is love, work, and grief.
Examples of effortful processing
what are Chunking, mnemonics, or hierarchies
Repeatedly imagining fake actions and events can create false memories
What is imagination effect
The key milestons for each stage
What is:
Sensorimotor: object permanace and stranger anxiety
Preoperational: Pretend play and egocentrism
Concrete operational: conservation and mathematical transformations
Formal operational: abstract logic, potential for mature moral reasoning