Remembering and Forgetting Early Childhood

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-49786-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Qi

Gülgöz, Sami

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Gülgöz is Professor of Psychology at Koç 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.