Infants do not have the language ability to report on their memories and so verbal reports cannot be used to assess very young children’s memory. Throughout the years, however, researchers have adapted and developed a number of measures for assessing both infants’ recognition memory and their recall memory. Habituation and operant conditioning techniques have been used to assess infants’ recognition memory and the deferred and elicited imitation techniques have been used to assess infants’ recall memory. COUNT 3
QSN1 Why do infants and young childrens memories need to be assesed differently? ANS1 do not have the language ability to report on their memories QSN2 Can researchers study an infants or young childs memories? ANS2 , researchers have adapted and developed a number of measures for assessing both infants’ recognition memory and their recall memory. QSN3 How can a researcher study a childs memory? ANS3 elicited imitation techniques