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The Developing Mind SSTP Week Two

Memory involves the neural networks in the brain and how experience shapes their structure and firing patterns. There are several types of memory including implicit, explicit, working, short-term, and long-term memory. Explicit memory requires conscious awareness and involves remembering past events or facts, while implicit memory operates unconsciously to influence behaviors. The hippocampus is important for initial storage and retrieval of explicit memories, though memories may become independent of the hippocampus over time through consolidation in the cortex. Parental involvement in childhood supports the development of explicit autobiographical memory.

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The Developing Mind SSTP Week Two

Memory involves the neural networks in the brain and how experience shapes their structure and firing patterns. There are several types of memory including implicit, explicit, working, short-term, and long-term memory. Explicit memory requires conscious awareness and involves remembering past events or facts, while implicit memory operates unconsciously to influence behaviors. The hippocampus is important for initial storage and retrieval of explicit memories, though memories may become independent of the hippocampus over time through consolidation in the cortex. Parental involvement in childhood supports the development of explicit autobiographical memory.

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MEMORY

 The way past events affect future function


 Neural net profiles
 The increased probability of firing a similar
pattern is how the network remembers
 Experience shapes the structure of the
brain: experience-dependent development
 Hebb: neurons that fire together, wire
together, and fire together in the future.
Types of Memory
 Implicit
 Explicit: Semantic and
Episodic/Autobiographical
 Working
 Short-term and Long-term
 Consolidated or Permanent
Implicit Memory
 Present before birth
 Devoid of subjective experience of “recall”
 Involves mental models and “priming”: Implicit
Relational Knowing
 Includes behavioral emotional, perceptual, and
somatosensory remembering
 Focal attention not required for encoding
 Initial encoding independent of hippocampus
Explicit Memory
 Infantile amnesia: not on-line until at least 12
months
 Semantic: Content of facts; ages 1 – 2.
 Autobiographical/Episodic: after age two plus
 Requires conscious awareness for encoding and
involves “remembering”
 Hippocampal involvement required for storage
and initial retrieval
 Consolidation makes selected events permanent
independent of hippocampus
Working Memory
 “The chalkboard of the mind”
 Reflection function of current events and
the past
 Entertaining multiple self-states
 Strategizing for the future
 Also called “short-term”
Long-term Memory
 Parental involvement in engaging children in
focusing attention and encouraging elaboration
of shared reflections has a direct impact on the
autobiographical development of the self
 Important information moves from working
memory to long-term memory
 Recollection is the activation of a representation
Permanent Memory
 Cortical consolidation reorganizes
associated memories into new linkages
 REM sleep is thought to play a significant
role in achieving this process
Highlights
 Interpersonal experiences appear to have a direct
effect on the development of explicit memory
 If the brain appraises an event as meaningful
(emotional), it will be more likely recalled in the
future
 Chronic stress may damage the hippocampus itself
 Actual events can be forgotten, and
nonexperienced “recollections” can be deeply felt to
be true memories
Memory and Narrative
 SSTP focal process
 The importance of focusing on the agency
of the story-teller
 Implicit aspects of the story
 The multiplicity of the self related to story
 The interpersonal, cultural influence

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