GROWTH OF MEMORY DURING INFANCY

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 99  (1) , 91-130
Abstract
Middle class human infants [8] were administered a series of tasks over a 9 mo. period from 5-14 mo. of age. Major procedures included object permanence, vacillation, memory for locations and pictures, and reaction to unfamiliar adults and to separation. During the last half of the 1st yr there is apparently a major enhancement in the ability to retrieve a representation of a past event, to compare that representation with present experience and to tolerate both longer delays between an original and transformed event and greater interference during those delays. Many of the diverse phenomena that appear during the last half of the 1st yr are probably mediated, in part, by an amplification of memorial capacity.

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