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Can Maltreated Children Inhibit True and False Memories for Emotional Information?
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Howe, Mark L.; Toth, Sheree L.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2011
The authors examined 284 maltreated and nonmaltreated children's (6- to 12-year-olds) ability to inhibit true and false memories for neutral and emotional information using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Children studied either emotional or neutral DRM lists in a control condition or were given directed-remembering or…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
The Effects of Maltreatment and Neuroendocrine Regulation on Memory Performance
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Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Howe, Mark L.; Toth, Sheree L. – Child Development, 2010
This investigation examined basic memory processes, cortisol, and dissociation in maltreated children. School-aged children (age range = 6-13), 143 maltreated and 174 nonmaltreated, were administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children (D. C. Delis, J. H. Kramer, E. Kaplan, & B. A. Ober, 1994) in a week-long camp setting, daily…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Verbal Learning, Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)
True and False Memories in Maltreated Children
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Howe, Mark L.; Cicchetti, Dante; Toth, Sheree L.; Cerrito, Beth M. – Child Development, 2004
Differences in basic memory processes between maltreated and nonmaltreated children were examined in an experiment in which middle-socioeconomic-status (SES; N=60), low-SES maltreated (N=48), and low-SES nonmaltreated (N=51) children (ages 57, 89, and 10-12 years) studied 12 Deese-Roediger-McDermott lists. Using recall and recognition measures,…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Child Abuse, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)