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Measuring infant memory: Does the ruler matter?
Author(s) -
Gross Julien,
Hayne Harlene,
Herbert Jane,
Sowerby Paula
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.10020
Subject(s) - comparability , imitation , psychology , memory test , cognitive psychology , ruler , reinforcement , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognition , neuroscience , mathematics , physics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics
Although the mobile conjugate reinforcement, deferred imitation, and visual attention paradigms are commonly used to test memory processing by infants, there is often debate about the comparability of memory measured by these three procedures. In a series of experiments, we systematically compared 6‐month‐old infants' performance across all three procedures. Contrary to current claims, measures of memory obtained using the mobile conjugate reinforcement and deferred imitation paradigms were more similar than those obtained using the deferred imitation and visual attention paradigms. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 40: 183–192, 2002. DOI 10.1002/dev.10020