Long-term memory is necessary to obtain meaning for percepts.
Not only do these activities provide vocabulary and concepts, but they, more importantly I think, facilitate the neural infra structure for short term memory which will serve the child for a life time. The rule of thumb, here, is to involve the child as
Long Term Memory: Long term memory is, of course, indispensable in any decoding task. Without it, no meaning can be attributed to the percept.
We have discussed problems in this area under Aphasia and Agnosia and we will have more to say about this topic when we examine the cognitive processes of memory.
For now, lets return to the main menu and examine some Behavioral or Learned influences in the perceptual process÷Attention and Expectancies.
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