Week 3, Post 1

Chapter six was such an interesting chapter. While reading the chapter it showed me that I was really not informed in child development. One part of the chapter that I found very interesting was when the book went over the memory process for infants. While reading this part of the chapter, my favorite part was the experiment where they had three month old babies to taught to make a mobile move when they tied a string to the babies foot. (Rovee-Collier, 1987, 1990) A week after that experiment was done they placed the baby again under the mobile and tied the string again to him, and he remember the fact that when he kicked the mobile would spin. Then Carolyn Rovee-Collier developed another experiment showing that 3 month old babies could remember after 2 weeks with a reminder session. A reminder session is like a refresher experience to let the baby remember what happened before. The reminder session that Carolyn did was that one day they placed the baby under the mobile without being tied to the foot, then the next day she placed the baby under the mobile again, and the baby remember that if he kicked he would make the mobile move again. While reading this it made me really surprised, because I never knew a 3 month old baby had such a good memory. Also during this part of the chapter it made me wonder why I can't remeber anything from when I was a baby. Though Freud said that is called "childhood amnesia" which is that we forget experiences, people, and even language from when we are young.