section_path: Study techniques/To assess infants
section_name: To assess infants
paragraph_text: To assess infants
  
  Infants do not have the language ability to report on their memories and so verbal reports cannot be used to assess very young children's memory. Throughout the years, however, researchers have adapted and developed a number of measures for assessing both infants' recognition memory and their recall memory. Habituation and operant conditioning techniques have been used to assess infants' recognition memory and the deferred and elicited imitation techniques have been used to assess infants' recall memory.
  
  Techniques used to assess infants' recognition memory include the following:
  
  Techniques used to assess infants' recall memory include the following: