Memory in child development

Memory in child development

1. measuring it through conjugate/reinforcement (mobile above baby) and habituation/dishabituation (remembering faces, so get bored and look away)

   • train task for older infants (train set that moves by a lever, infants tested after a delay by sitting infront of a lever unconnected to the train)

2. Infants long term memory measured through deferred imitation

   • Bauer (2002) - 3 step task - 1-12 months
   • Bauer & Mandler (1992) 11.5 to 20 months

3. Infantile Amnesia

   • Lack autobiographical memories from early childhood
     • Personal and long-lasting memories which are the basis for ones personal life history
     • Howe and Courage (1993) - sense of self

4. Script based memroy

   • Bauer and Mandler (1989) - children use scripts so do not remeber specific details.

5. Hudson & Nelson (1983)

   • Children ommit or correct the miss-ordered items from a birthday party

6. Domains of memory development

   • Flavell & Wellman (1979)
     • 4 phenomena in analysing memory development
       • 1) Basic processes, 2) knowledge, 3) Strategies, 4) Metamemory

7. Children as eye witnesses

   • Suggestability
     • Social factors
       • Acquiescence
       • Social Conformity bias
     • Cognitive factors
       • Sam Stone

8. Effects of stereotypes and suggestions on memory

   • Sam Stone- half the children in stereotype group recalled events that never happened.

9. Suggestability and the forensic investigation of young children