Remembering and Forgetting Early Childhood
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2020
134 pages
978-1-000-06451-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together scholarship that contributes diverse and new perspectives on childhood amnesia - the scarcity of memories for very early life events.
The topics of the studies reported in the book range from memories of infants and young children for recent and distant life events, to mother-child conversations about memories for extended lifetime periods, and to retrospective recollections of early childhood in adolescents and adults. The methodological approaches are diverse and theoretical insights rich. The findings together show that childhood amnesia is a complex and malleable phenomenon and that the waning of childhood amnesia and the development of autobiographical memory are shaped by a variety of interactive social and cognitive factors.
This book will facilitate discussion and deepen an understanding of the dynamics that influence the accessibility, content, accuracy, and phenomenological qualities of memories from early childhood. This book was originally published as a special issue of Memory.
The topics of the studies reported in the book range from memories of infants and young children for recent and distant life events, to mother-child conversations about memories for extended lifetime periods, and to retrospective recollections of early childhood in adolescents and adults. The methodological approaches are diverse and theoretical insights rich. The findings together show that childhood amnesia is a complex and malleable phenomenon and that the waning of childhood amnesia and the development of autobiographical memory are shaped by a variety of interactive social and cognitive factors.
This book will facilitate discussion and deepen an understanding of the dynamics that influence the accessibility, content, accuracy, and phenomenological qualities of memories from early childhood. This book was originally published as a special issue of Memory.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-06451-3 (9781000064513)
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Qi Wang | Sami Guelgoez
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Persons
Qi Wang is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Her research examines individual and cultural mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory. She is the author of The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture.
Sami Guelgoez is Professor of Psychology at Koc University. His past work includes topics varying from text processing to personality. In the last decade, he has concentrated on memory in everyday life, primarily autobiographical memory.
Sami Guelgoez is Professor of Psychology at Koc University. His past work includes topics varying from text processing to personality. In the last decade, he has concentrated on memory in everyday life, primarily autobiographical memory.
Content
Introduction: New perspectives on childhood amnesia
1. Manipulating the reported age in earliest memories
2. Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories
3. Consistency of adults' earliest memories across two years
4. Thirty-five-month-old children have spontaneous memories despite change of context for retrieval
5. What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters
6. Predictors of age-related and individual variability in autobiographical memory in childhood
7. Origins of adolescents' earliest memories
8. Recollection improves with age: children's and adults' accounts of their childhood experiences
9. The relationship between sociocultural factors and autobiographical memories from childhood: the role of formal schooling
10. Unravelling the nature of early (autobiographical) memory
1. Manipulating the reported age in earliest memories
2. Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories
3. Consistency of adults' earliest memories across two years
4. Thirty-five-month-old children have spontaneous memories despite change of context for retrieval
5. What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters
6. Predictors of age-related and individual variability in autobiographical memory in childhood
7. Origins of adolescents' earliest memories
8. Recollection improves with age: children's and adults' accounts of their childhood experiences
9. The relationship between sociocultural factors and autobiographical memories from childhood: the role of formal schooling
10. Unravelling the nature of early (autobiographical) memory
