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Children's long-term retention of salient personal experiences

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Journal of Traumatic Stress

Abstract

Research on young children's long-term retention is reviewed in this article. More specifically, the abilities of 3- to 7-year-olds to remember the details of two types of medical experiences—a routine physical examination and an invasive radiological procedure—are discussed in the context of a framework for considering the flow of information in the developing memory system. The framework emphasizes four general themes about memory performance and provides a vehicle for relating research on memory development to discussions of children's testimony and adults' abilities to remember early experiences.

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Ornstein, P.A. Children's long-term retention of salient personal experiences. J Trauma Stress 8, 581–605 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02102890

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