Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Carolyn Rovee-Collier

            Carolyn was a developmental psychologist who believed that memory processes and thinking processes are closely related to infants and adults.  She claims that memories that we have from infancy are never lost, they are just hard to retrieve and access from our memory as an adult (Vitello, 2014).

            In her studies concerning infants, she would place an infant in a crib, put a ribbon on the infant’s foot, and see record how many times the child would kick.  One end was attached to a mobile hanging over the crib.  The infants learned that kicking their foot would move the mobile (A.W.W. Norton & Company, N/A).

            Carolyn Rovee-Collier had made important discoveries concerning Developmental Psychology and has allowed us to better understand infant’s memories and the way they develop and learn how to do certain tasks.

Bibliography

A.W.W. Norton & Company. (N/A). Can Infants Remember?(A.W.W Norton & Company) Retrieved March 2019, from Psychology: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/psych/psychology8/ch/08/critthinking.aspx

Vitello, P. (2014, October 22). Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Who Said Babies Have Clear Memories, Is Dead at 72. Retrieved March 2019, from The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/us/carolyn-rovee-collier-who-said-babies-have-clear-memories-is-dead-at-72.html