title: Children's long-term retention of salient personal experiences.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-3270, USA.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Ornstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000523:psychology; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013404:Suggestion; D014342:Truth Disclosure