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Memory This is one of my new favorite movies, Inside Out. Although it's mostly dealing with emotions, it also deals with memories and is now one of the images I get when I think of memories. 1.      Language plays a role in a young child’s developing memory by putting words to objects, actions, and events that are going on. “Language plays a role in a young child’s developing memory skills by providing both a communicative and a representational tool for remembering,” (Nelson & Fivush, as cited in Wang & Ross, 2007, 661). Studies have been done to show that if an infant is read to in the womb, in the last weeks before they are born, they are able to distinguish between the book that was read to them, and an unfamiliar book when they are born. So infants do have memory as early as in the womb. It is suggested in this reading though, that infants might not be able to remember these early memories, from birth until three years old or so, because they did not hav...

According to Brian Kolb and Robin Gibb, there are a few different factors that can affect brain development. One combination of factors are sensory and motor experiences. They explained how rodents, “…deprived of environments such as in darkness, silence, or social isolation clearly retards brain development,” (Kolb & Gibb, 2011, p. 7). Another factor that affects brain development are psychoactive drugs. This can be drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, or heroin, or also prescription drugs. All of these have been proved to affect the dendrites in the brain in rodents, (Kolb & Gibb, 2011, p. 9). The last factor that I think is really important to discuss, that I find extremely interesting as well as information every parent, guardian, or person that works with children should know is early stress. Perinatal stress in rodents produced different behavioral abnormalities. Some of those include learning and memory problems as well as prolonged stress responses, (Kolb & Gibb, 20...