ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the major issues in memory changes through infancy and childhood. It deals with infancy, one of the first challenges in understanding infant memory is dealing with the fact that different methods are needed to test such young people, due to their lack of language. The chapter presents the issue of infantile amnesia. It looks at a number of different memory abilities. Human memory is made up of several components that develop at different rates. The chapter also looks at different types of memory and how they are progressing during infancy. Different types of memory development are associated with various neurological development rates. A neurological account of infantile amnesia is based on changes in neural structures in the course of development. The inability of adults to remember most memories from when they were infants is infantile amnesia. As children acquire have more experience with the world, their semantic memory becomes more complex.
