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The Joy of Kicking: Memories, Motives, and Mobiles

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A central question in developmental psychology is whether young infants can profit from experience, and if so, how. The answer is critical not only for our practical understanding of the effects of early experience on later behavior but also for theories of development, most of which include strong assumptions regarding the mechanisms underlying early behavioral transitions. Given the importance of this problem, it is surprising that the study of memory early in infancy has been and continues to be a neglected research topic. This neglect has arisen both from the methodological difficulties associated with questioning prelinguistic infants about their memories and from philosophical differences regarding the representational abilities of nonverbal organisms and the role of consciousness in memory processing (see chaps. 4 and 6 in this volume; J. Mandler, 1984; Strauss & Carter, 1984; Tulving, 1985). As a result, today there is a general consensus among authorities of human memory and human development that the capacity for long-term memory does not emerge until sometimes after the first 8 or 9 months of life (chap. 6 in this volume; Kagan, 1984; Nadel & Zola-Morgan, 1984; Olson & Strauss, 1984; Schacter & Moscovitch, 1984).

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