Childhood Amnesia

A Conceptualization in Cognitive-Psychological Terms

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8335121
AutoresScott E Wetzler (Scott Wetzler, Ph.D. Psychology Department Montefiore Hospital 111 East 210th Street Bronx, New York 10467), Scott Wetzler (Yeshiva University), John A Sweeney (0000-0002-1273-3602, John Sweeney, Ph.D. Payne Whitney Clinic New York Hospital 525 East 68th Street New York, New York 10021)
Ano1986
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas663-685
Data de publicação1986-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306518603400307
PMID3760448
OpenAlexW2098767539
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas22

Childhood amnesia is defined operationally as the forgetting of early life events to a significantly greater degree than is accounted for by “normal” forgetting, which is an increasing recall decrement as time since occurrence increases. Three cognitive processes and their developmental changes are discussed which, when considered with psychodynamic factors, may broaden the understanding of childhood amnesia. It is argued that psychoanalytic theory and technique can benefit from the research and methods of cognitive psychology

Amnesia · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Conceptualization · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Child and Animal Learning Development · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes