Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Very Long-term Memories of a Salient Preschool Event. |
| Authors: |
Pillemer, David B., Picariello, Martha L., Pruett, Jenzi C. |
| Source: |
Applied Cognitive Psychology. Apr94, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p95-106. 12p. |
| Subjects: |
Mental health, Amnesia, Children's health, Dissociative disorders in children, Building evacuation, Health of school children |
| Abstract: |
Children who attended either a younger (mean age = 3½ years) or an older (mean age = 4½years) preschool classroom were interviewed twice about an emergency school evacuation in response to a fire alarm. All children were able to answer some memory questions 2 weeks after the evacuation occurred, but the memory narratives produced by older preschool children showed a more refined knowledge of the temporal and causal sequence of events. Seven years later, memory of the fire alarm was reassessed. Only those preadolescents who had been in the older preschool group at the time or the alarm showed convincing evidence of long-term memory. The offset of childhood amnesia appears to be influenced by developmental changes in cognitive processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
