Psych 343 - 4

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Infantile Amnesia

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adults not being able to remember memories before age 2.

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Causes of Infantile Amnesia:

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lack language development
lack sense of self
lack brain development

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factors effecting how long children can remember:

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exposure time
deviation from routine
reminders
organization of events
timing of the reminder
social interaction (talking about it)
working memory capacity

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Reconstructive nature of memories:

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details fade overtime, can only remember the gist of it.

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Consolidation Effect:

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forgetting occurs most rapid recently then memory doesn't change that much.

Front 6

Scripts

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VERBAL representation of events in the correct order

cant do this till 5 yo

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Scale errors

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children can't comprehend their body size and size of objects

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Children's Planning:

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must know concept of future
must know language that describes future.

parents help but developing routines and their conversation about what will happen

forms at 3-41/2

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Stages of planning:

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1) can only plan for one slot in an event
2) can plan for 2 aspects of the one slot in an event
3)Coordinated event planning (within a subset)
4)Can actually plan for novel events

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External Supports=

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using concepts from adults while child is planning (helps child move from stage 1-2)

supports vgotsky's zone of proximal development

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Constraints in Counting for children:

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1) each object can only have 1 number
2) all numbers only go up in sequence
3) the last object they count will be highest number

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_____ has alot to do with counting:

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reaction time