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Children's memory for medical experiences: implications for testimony

✍ Scribed by Peter A. Ornstein; Lynne Baker-Ward; Betty N. Gordon; Kathy Ann Merritt

Book ID
101278409
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
208 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-4080

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✦ Synopsis

Because medical procedures involve bodily contact and may evoke discomfort or pain, they are in some ways analogous to instances of child abuse. As such, the study of children's memory for medical experiences provides information that is relevant for an understanding of their abilities to provide accurate eyewitness testimony. This article summarizes the results of a number of studies that have explored children's long-term retention of details of routine physical examinations as well as other less familiar and more stressful medical procedures. The goal of this work has been to chart age dierences in the retention and forgetting of pediatric check-ups and to examine some of the variables that aect children's memory for the details of medical procedures. The results of this research program are discussed in the context of four general themes about the Β―ow of information within the memory system.

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