A 2-Year-Old Child's Memory of Hospitalization during Early Infancy

Autor/in	Solter, Aletha
Titel	A 2-Year-Old Child's Memory of Hospitalization during Early Infancy
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 17 (2008) 6, S.593-605 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.570
Schlagwörter	Surgery; Recall (Psychology); Long Term Memory; Adults; Anxiety; Evaluation Methods; Age Differences; Interviews; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Chirurgie; Abberufung; Langzeitgedächtnis; Angst; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	A child who had had surgery at 5 months of age, and who had been treated at the time for post-traumatic symptoms (reported in a previous paper by the author), was interviewed 2 years later and almost 3 years later to test for possible verbal recall of his hospitalization. He appeared to have some memories of the experience at 29 months of age, and he was able to superimpose verbal labels onto the preverbal memories. At 40 months of age, however, the memories were no longer verbally accessible. The results are discussed in the context of different theories of encoding, storage, retrieval, and loss of early memories. The findings from this study support other findings indicating that there appears to be some form of long-term memory in place early in life, at least for highly salient, traumatic events. There may be one memory system for traumatic memories, fully functional at birth, and a later developing, different system for neutral memories. It is further hypothesized that there may be a sensitive period around 2-3 years of age for the recall of early traumatic memories, and that verbal recall is more likely to be present in verbally precocious children during that period. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10