CHILDREN'S LONG TERM RETENTION OF SALIENT EXPERIENCES

儿童对重要经历的长期记忆

• 批准号: 2205062
• 负责人: PETER A ORNSTEIN
• 金额: $ 20.7万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-01 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2205062
• 关键词: age difference; child (0-11); experience; human subject; long term memory

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): This project is concerned with the abilities of 3 to 7-year old children to remember personally-experienced events over extended delay intervals. The studies outlined examine children's long-term retention of the details of visits to the doctor for a regularly-scheduled physical examination, as well as three types of more stressful and less routine medical experiences: 1) an invasive radiological procedure involving urinary catheterization; 2) an emergency visit to a plastic surgeon for sutures; and 3) an initial appointment with a pediatric dentist. The proposed work stems from an informal framework that has been developed for exploring age differences in long-term retention. Of the 13 studies proposed, 11 are experiments that are designed to: a) examine factors such as prior knowledge, stress, and temperament that may be associated with the encoding and storage of personally-experienced events; b) investigate the extent to which intervening experiences during a long interval can affect memory representations and subsequent reports; and c) explore contextual variables that have the potential to affect the retrievability of stored information. An additional two studies involve interpretive activities that make use of an integrated across-study data base to evaluate the findings an explore a mathematical model for characterizing children's performance. This research should contribute to our understanding of the course of retention (and loss) of information about personally-experienced events over time and will also have implications for the management of children who provide testimony in the courts.

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本项目为