What we know about long term memories of childhood
Jun 14, 2018 18:35:56 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 18:35:56 GMT 10
Here are some quotes from a Scientific American article
This tells us that you have to not only know the setting, but also being old enough to keep tract of the time (like knowing what year or the date) at the time makes it easier to remember it.
I think CaboBayCaptain made this point before on multiple occasions. With age, your memories of younger age fade away. For instance, you were probably doing kid stuff at age 5, but you might have forgot as you got older.
And another quote from a Psychology Today article.
Which also explains it even further. Long term memories formed at a certain age and forward will stay longer, no matter how old you get (kind of.) Early childhood memories don't stay forever.
What I'm gathering from this is you'll more likely be able to remember later childhood memories even better. For instance, in theory, you have better memory of age 10 than age 7.
I gathered some information and my conclusion is, memories from ages 3 to 5 are long term, but as you get older, those memories fad away. You were probably participating in kid activities, though these a lot of these activities were tailor made for toddlers/preschoolers, such as watching Sesame Street and learning your ABC's. Even if you don't remember these, they were still import to your development regardless. You also gain motor skills which you remember and still have, but might not remember learning.
In regards to keeping tract of time, the date was written on the classroom board ever since you started school. In the "1999" creepypasta, the author, who was in kindergarten that year, said the teacher made the class repeat the date on the board everyday. Now, I don't believe in creepypastas, but I had to mention it because we start to learn dates as we start to learn numbers, which was the case in this realistic classroom scenario. As I mention earlier, toddlers/preschoolers are learning their ABC's and 123's, so in many ways, the toddler years are used to get kids ready for the "kid kid" years, which is a no brainier, but this leads into my next point.
In the decade wars, many will use their 3-5 years as childhood so they can convince themselves and others that they're late 90's kids, early 00's kids, mid 00's kids, or whatever the case, but the fact of the matter is, vivid memories don't just come when your brain develops enough to have vivid memories, but also with preoperational development (ages 2 to 7) as a whole, so even with some memories of early childhood, you're still learning the basics of life and can't process things in full context yet, and without full context or details of the situation you witnessed as toddler, you're memories of are still too vague, and even if some memories are clear, there's still a vague understanding of the details you could process at the time.
As for "Neural input streams from the frontal lobe become increasingly proficient as a child reaches adolescence and progresses into adulthood." From experience, I can see what they're saying, because age 7 feels more distant than age 12, now that could be because age 7 is farther away, but that's a very broad generalization. I get the feeling, overtime, memories of concrete operational development (ages 7 to 12) and formal operational development (adolescence though adulthood) start fading a bit too. During childhood and adolescence, I've had feelings of different "eras" of my life, hell, two neighboring years can feel different in terms of adolescent years, though you should start noticing you don't change very much every year near the end of adolescence.
Now, I'm not a psychologist by any means at all, but I just wanted to try to have a better understanding about childhood memories and childhood development since childhood age ranges are used for decade kid debates are used on sites such as Personality Cafe, InThe00s, Popedia, YouTube comment sections, and other places too. Especially since there's a lot of differing opinions and bitter discussions that are in bad taste which fuel anger and frustration between participates of the debate.
As for me, I was born in January 2002, and my constant vivid memories started when I was starting first grade in August 2008, I was six years and 7 months old, so the age 6-6.5 rule Psychology Today uses works perfectly here. I don't really remember kindergarten that well. Kindergarten is half toddler, half kid, so kinder-gardeners themselves are still learning things before they become full on kids in first grade. Now, some people have said they're constant vivid memories started around 5 and a half years old, but I'm just explaining myself here. I hit puberty in 2013, when I was 11 years old. Not sure when in 2013, but I did start looking at my older brother's 2010 Hooter calender and searched images of naked girls on Google, so I was getting into pornography. My core childhood was Late 2008 to Early 2013 (full years: 2009-2012.)
When we're using core childhood and yours happens to span between two decades, you really shouldn't choose one decade over the other to identify with, because even if you're leaning one over the other, you still have vivid, constant memories of both decades as a kid who is are past the toddler stage.
Also, let's talk about late childhood, just because you hit puberty, doesn't necessarily mean your childhood is over, because a lot of preteens and even really early teens are still acting childish. When I was ages 11-12, I was still learning to become a teenager. Childhood doesn't truly end until puberty kicks in and you start being viewed more like a teen rather than a little kid, which varies from person to person.
I'm just gonna wrap it up here.
Making an episodic memory requires binding together different details of an event—when it happened and where, how we felt and who was there—and retrieving that information later.
Some evidence suggests that young children do have episodic memories of their infancy but lose them later. A six-year-old, for instance, can remember events from before her first birthday, but by adolescence, she has probably forgotten that celebration. In other words, young children can likely make long-term-like memories, but these memories typically fade after a certain age or stage of brain development.
Memories made in later childhood and beyond are more likely to stick because the young brain, especially the hippocampus and the frontoparietal regions, undergoes important developmental changes that improve our ability to bind, store and recall events.
Research has indicated that most people’s earliest memories, on average, date back to when they were 3-1/2 years old. Recent studies of children, however, suggest that our earliest memories are more likely to go back even further (Wang & Peterson, 2014). By contrast, research with adults suggests that people can remember early childhood memories back only to about age 6-to-6-1/2 (Wells, Morrison, & Conway, 2014). Researchers agree that few experiences before age 6 become lifelong memories.
Time-based prospective memory develops between 7 and 12 years of age as children make more efficient use of external reminders. In comparison with other types of memory development, time-based prospective memory requires greater executive functioning skills and is therefore mastered at a later age as neural networks become more sophisticated. Neural input streams from the frontal lobe become increasingly proficient as a child reaches adolescence and progresses into adulthood.
Citation: Wang, L., Kliegel, M., Yang, Z., Liu, W. (2006). Prospective Memory Performance Across Adolescence. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167(2), 179-88.
Citation: Wang, L., Kliegel, M., Yang, Z., Liu, W. (2006). Prospective Memory Performance Across Adolescence. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167(2), 179-88.
I gathered some information and my conclusion is, memories from ages 3 to 5 are long term, but as you get older, those memories fad away. You were probably participating in kid activities, though these a lot of these activities were tailor made for toddlers/preschoolers, such as watching Sesame Street and learning your ABC's. Even if you don't remember these, they were still import to your development regardless. You also gain motor skills which you remember and still have, but might not remember learning.
In regards to keeping tract of time, the date was written on the classroom board ever since you started school. In the "1999" creepypasta, the author, who was in kindergarten that year, said the teacher made the class repeat the date on the board everyday. Now, I don't believe in creepypastas, but I had to mention it because we start to learn dates as we start to learn numbers, which was the case in this realistic classroom scenario. As I mention earlier, toddlers/preschoolers are learning their ABC's and 123's, so in many ways, the toddler years are used to get kids ready for the "kid kid" years, which is a no brainier, but this leads into my next point.
In the decade wars, many will use their 3-5 years as childhood so they can convince themselves and others that they're late 90's kids, early 00's kids, mid 00's kids, or whatever the case, but the fact of the matter is, vivid memories don't just come when your brain develops enough to have vivid memories, but also with preoperational development (ages 2 to 7) as a whole, so even with some memories of early childhood, you're still learning the basics of life and can't process things in full context yet, and without full context or details of the situation you witnessed as toddler, you're memories of are still too vague, and even if some memories are clear, there's still a vague understanding of the details you could process at the time.
As for "Neural input streams from the frontal lobe become increasingly proficient as a child reaches adolescence and progresses into adulthood." From experience, I can see what they're saying, because age 7 feels more distant than age 12, now that could be because age 7 is farther away, but that's a very broad generalization. I get the feeling, overtime, memories of concrete operational development (ages 7 to 12) and formal operational development (adolescence though adulthood) start fading a bit too. During childhood and adolescence, I've had feelings of different "eras" of my life, hell, two neighboring years can feel different in terms of adolescent years, though you should start noticing you don't change very much every year near the end of adolescence.
Now, I'm not a psychologist by any means at all, but I just wanted to try to have a better understanding about childhood memories and childhood development since childhood age ranges are used for decade kid debates are used on sites such as Personality Cafe, InThe00s, Popedia, YouTube comment sections, and other places too. Especially since there's a lot of differing opinions and bitter discussions that are in bad taste which fuel anger and frustration between participates of the debate.
As for me, I was born in January 2002, and my constant vivid memories started when I was starting first grade in August 2008, I was six years and 7 months old, so the age 6-6.5 rule Psychology Today uses works perfectly here. I don't really remember kindergarten that well. Kindergarten is half toddler, half kid, so kinder-gardeners themselves are still learning things before they become full on kids in first grade. Now, some people have said they're constant vivid memories started around 5 and a half years old, but I'm just explaining myself here. I hit puberty in 2013, when I was 11 years old. Not sure when in 2013, but I did start looking at my older brother's 2010 Hooter calender and searched images of naked girls on Google, so I was getting into pornography. My core childhood was Late 2008 to Early 2013 (full years: 2009-2012.)
When we're using core childhood and yours happens to span between two decades, you really shouldn't choose one decade over the other to identify with, because even if you're leaning one over the other, you still have vivid, constant memories of both decades as a kid who is are past the toddler stage.
Also, let's talk about late childhood, just because you hit puberty, doesn't necessarily mean your childhood is over, because a lot of preteens and even really early teens are still acting childish. When I was ages 11-12, I was still learning to become a teenager. Childhood doesn't truly end until puberty kicks in and you start being viewed more like a teen rather than a little kid, which varies from person to person.
I'm just gonna wrap it up here.
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