With regard to retrieval and recall, i.e., the ability to remember
specific details of experience, that begins
between the ages of six
months and one year. When your baby develops the power of
retrieval, his memory will become stronger and he will have a
clearer idea of the things he wants or what he wants to do. The
first things that he will remember are things that interest him and
happen
repeatedly in front of him; he will remember where his
toys are, and he will imitate actions he saw a week ago. At the
same time he will send you a number of signals which indicate
that he knows what is
going to happen after his meal, for
example, or when he has his bath or at bedtime. By this means he
will show you that he remembers exactly what happened last
time.
As the child grows older,
his direct memory increases, and he will
be able to store a lot of different images. In a scientific study,
sixty images were shown during the course of one day to a group
of four-‐year-‐old
children; each image was shown for only two
seconds. The following day, the children were asked to pick out
the sixty images from among one hundred and twenty images.
The result was that the average child
gave the correct answer in
80% of cases. But the child will not develop long-‐term memory or
memory of specific events until he is between fourteen and
eighteen months old.
Another study that was carried out on children between the ages
of five and six years showed that children
of this age are able to
remember words, movements, images and meanings;
remembering clear words and phrases is also easier for them
than remembering ambiguous or unclear words and phrases. The
child is also able to recognize missing parts from a picture.
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