Unconscious memory is dominant.
Children's unconscious memory is better than conscious memory; The effect of children's unconscious memory increases with age; Children's unconscious memory is a by-product of positive cognitive activities.
Conscious memory develops gradually.
Children's conscious memory is not spontaneous, but gradually produced under the requirements of life and the education of adults; The effect of conscious memory depends on the consciousness of memory task and the motivation of activity; The development of children's intentional copying precedes conscious memory.
Improve understanding and organizational skills.
Childhood is a period of rapid development of meaning memory; Children rely more and more on understanding in the process of memory, and systematize memory materials; Children have a good memory effect on the materials they understand.
Image memory is dominant.
Children's image memory is better than word memory; Image memory is dominant in children's memory; Children's image memory and word memory develop with age; The difference between image memory and word memory is gradually narrowing.
Consciousness and memory methods gradually developed.
The development of children's intentional memory and meaningful memory, the infiltration of meaningful memory into mechanical memory, the infiltration of word memory into image memory, and their compactness all reflect the development of children's conscious awareness of memory process and memory strategies and methods.