LONG-TERM-MEMORY FOR A SINGLE INFANCY EXPERIENCE

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作者
PERRIS, EE [1 ]
MYERS, NA [1 ]
CLIFTON, RK [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MASSACHUSETTS, DEPT PSYCHOL, AMHERST, MA 01003 USA
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10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb03566.x
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G44 [教育心理学];
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0402 ; 040202 ;
摘要
Children's memory of a single infant experience was evaluated. Children in the experimental groups (N= 16 for 2.5‐year‐olds; N= 8 for 1.5‐year‐olds) had participated at 6.5 months in a study of auditory localization where they reached in the light and dark for a sounding object. They were reintroduced to the laboratory and the dark procedure they had experienced on that one occasion either 1 or 2 years previously. The first 5 trials were uninstructed; for the remaining 5 trials, children were instructed to find the sounding object. For half of the older group, a potential reminder of the infant procedure was introduced. The original infant rattle was sounded for 3 secout of reach in the dark one‐half hour prior to test trials. Equal numbers of age‐matched inexperienced control subjects were also tested. The older children with infant experience reached and grasped the sounding object significantly more overall, and on instructed trials, than agematched control children. Experienced 2.5‐year‐olds were also more likely to remain in the testing situation than children in the control group. The reminder facilitated uninstructed per. formance of the experienced children. Instructions to reach were helpful to all subjects. We conclude that children remembered aspects of a single experience that occurred when they were 6.5 months of age. Copyright © 1990, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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