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Emotion and memory: Children's long-term remembering, forgetting, and suggestibility.

J A Quas1, G S Goodman, S Bidrose

  • 1University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|March 13, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Children aged 4+ recall medical procedures better than younger children. Parental attachment and memory recall accuracy for medical events are linked, impacting eyewitness testimony.

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Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Childhood memory development is crucial for understanding personal history.
  • Medical procedures can be stressful, potentially impacting memory formation and retrieval.
  • Factors like age and parental influence may affect children's recall accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine children's memory accuracy for a real medical procedure.
  • To investigate the influence of age and delay on memory recall.
  • To explore the impact of parental attachment style on children's medical memory.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited children aged 3–13 who had undergone a voiding cystourethrogram fluoroscopy (VCUG).
  • Interviewed children about their VCUG experience, assessing memory accuracy.

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  • Analyzed data considering age at procedure, delay, parental attachment, and suggestibility.

    • Main Results:

    • Children aged 4 and older at the time of the VCUG demonstrated more accurate memories than younger children.
    • Longer delays between the procedure and recall were associated with fewer correct details, but not increased inaccuracies.
    • Parental avoidant attachment correlated with higher error rates in children's memories.
    • Children were more prone to falsely recalling a non-experienced procedure if it was briefly mentioned, linking to fewer "do-not-know" responses.

    Conclusions:

    • Age is a significant factor in children's accurate recall of medical events.
    • Parental attachment styles can influence the fidelity of children's memories.
    • Suggestibility, particularly with brief mentions of events, can lead to false memories in children, with implications for eyewitness testimony.