The development of memory in infancy and childhood / edited by Mary L. Courage and Nelson Cowan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Courage, Mary.

Cowan, Nelson.

Series:

Studies in developmental psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in children.

Physical Description:

xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2009.

Summary:

Human memory is not only the repository of our past but the essence of who we are. As such, it is of enduring fascination. We marvel at its resilience in some situations and its fragility in others. The origin of this extraordinary cognitive capacity in infancy and childhood is the focus of vigorous research and debate as we seek to understand the record of our earliest beginnings.

The first edition of this volume, The Development of Memory in Childhood, documented the state-of-the-science of memory development a decade ago. This new edition, The Development of Memory in Infancy and Childhood, provides a thorough update and expansion of the previous text and offers reviews of new research on significant themes and ideas that have emerged since then. Topics include basic memory processes in infants and toddlers, the cognitive neuroscience of memory development, autobiographical memory and infantile amnesia, the role of strategies and knowledge in driving memory development, and the impact of stress and emotion on these basic processes. The book also includes applications of basic memory processes to a variety of real world settings from the courtroom to the classroom.

Including contributions from many of the best researchers in the field, this classic yet contemporary volume will appeal to senior undergraduate and graduate students of developmental and cognitive psychology as well as to developmental psychologists who want a compendium of current reviews on key topics in memory development.

Contents:

1 Introduction: what's new in research on the development of memory in infants and children? / Mary L. Courage, Nelson Cowan 1

2 The development of infant memory / Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Kimberly Cuevas 11

Infant memory: a classic paradox 11

Novelty preference paradigms 12

Conditioning paradigms 13

Operant conditioning procedures 15

Deferred imitation paradigm 17

Reinstatement and reactivation reminders 17

Do infants exhibit rapid forgetting? 22

Do young infants rely exclusively on a primitive memory system? 28

Explicit memory has been characterized as context-dependent and associative. What do that from young infants show? 29

Does the onset of language block the retrieval of preverbal memories? 34

Infantile amnesia redux 34

3 Memory development in toddlers / Harlene Hayne, Gabrielle Simcock 43

Tasks to study memory in toddlers 44

Age-related changes in long-term retention 45

Age-related changes in representational flexibility 48

Independent locomotion facilitates memory development 49

Language acquisition facilitates memory development 50

What kind of memory do toddlers exhibit? 54

4 The development of memory for recurring events / Judith A. Hudson, Estelle M. Y. Mayhew 69

Development of general event knowledge 69

The organization of general and specific event knowledge in memory 73

Recall of specific episodes of recurring events 75

Use of general event knowledge in planning future events 80

The role of general event knowledge in the development of temporal concepts 82

5 Implicit memory in childhood: reassessing developmental invariance / Marianne E. Lloyd, Nora S. Newcombe 93

Priming effects 95

Sequence learning and statistical language learning 103

Neuroscience and implicit memory development 105

Beyond typical development: implicit memory in clinical populations 107

6 The cognitive neuroscience of the development of memory / Patricia J. Bauer 115

Multiple memory systems 116

The neural bases of declarative memory in the adult 117

Emergence of a developmental cognitive neuroscience of declarative memory 121

Relations between structure and function in infancy 124

Relations between structure and function in childhood 133

Advantages of a developmental cognitive neuroscience of declarative memory 136

7 The development of memory strategies / David F. Bjorklund, Charles Dukes, Rhonda Douglas Brown 145

Strategies: their definition, importance to memory development, and history 145

Strategic behavior in young children (or, what are production deficient children doing?) 149

Age changes in the use of memory strategies 150

Factors that influence children's use of memory strategies 159

Schooling and strategies 166

8 The genesis and development of autobiographical memory / Mark L. Howe, Mary L. Courage, Maki Rooksby 177

Early memory for events in human infants 178

Early memory for events in nonhuman species 179

The role of neurological changes in early memory development 182

Emergence of the self and the genesis of autobiographical memory 183

After the cognitive self: further developments in autobiographical memory 187

9 Memory development: emotion, stress, and trauma / Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Rakel P. Larson, Paola Castelli, Deborah Alley, Gail S. Goodman 197

Research on children's memory for emotional stimuli, stressful events, and traumatic experiences 199

Mechanisms involved in memory for emotionally arousing and traumatic information 206

Traumatization and memory 212

False memories, misinformation effects, and emotional events 217

Contributions of cognitive and individual differences factors to children's memory for emotional stimuli, stressful events, and traumatic experiences 218

10 Memory development and the forensic context / Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Karen Salmon 241

Contemporary research on children's memory reports in forensic interviews 244

Helping children retrieve and report detailed information 252

Individual differences in recall 259

11 Sociocultural perspectives on autobiographical memory / Robyn Fivush 283

The emergence of talk about the past 283

Individual differences in parent-child reminiscing 286

Maternal reminiscing and children's autobiographical narratives 289

Structure and content of maternal elaborations 290

12 Development of working memory in childhood / Nelson Cowan, Tracy Alloway 303

What is working memory? 303

What is special about working memory? 305

Models of working memory 308

Development of working memory 314

Practical implications 330

13 Working memory in infants and toddlers / J. Steven Reznick 343

Definition and significance of working memory 343

Methodological issues 346

What do we know about working memory in infants and toddlers? 352

Relevance of research with adults and non-humans 355

Relevance of cognitive neuroscience 355

Applications 357

To-do list 357

14 Developments in the study of the development of memory / Peter A. Ornstein, Catherine A. Haden 367

Characterizing children's memory 368

Longitudinal assessment 375

Mediators of change 377

Looking ahead 379.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of : The development of memory in childhood. c1997.

Includes indexes.

Contains:

Development of memory in childhood.

ISBN:

9781841696423

1841696420

OCLC:

183179484