![]() ![]() I think my first is around 3, I'm not really sure how you're supposed to think of your first memory, I just thought and saw if I could see anything about school then nursery etc and see which is the earliest. I'm never sure if my memories are actually my own or just ones that I've been told about. I am only 15 and yet the small gap I have between now and then doesn't make it any easier to remember back to when I was younger. The only problem is I find it very difficult to remember any of my childhood at all. And i wondering, why?My parents are shocked i cant remember athing before the age of six.Maybe because we moved countries. I dont remember anything at all before the age of six. My parents never remembered these incidents. We left that property before I was two according to my father's diaries. I determined then to learn to stand and practiced in my cot with the bars to help. ![]() I was shocked at first but admired their running skills. ![]() 3 children came into the room and lifted me off the tray and used it to sit on to slide down some steps. I also remember before I could walk that my mother left me on a tray I presume to stop my nappy wetting the carpet. I had been sleeping in a bassinet at the time and was moving about by sliding around on my bottom. My first memory is my mother painting my new cot and putting Disney transfers on it. I remember my brother being born when i was two, i remember nursery school very clearly and all reception class.i remember all my years up until 11 and then i have a total memory loss from 11-15! i cant remember people who i was in school with apart from close friends.unsure this is to do with my parents splitting up and becoming very withdrawn it was i suppose a particularly stressful time in my life ![]() I like Carole can remember nothing of my childhood,up to the age of about 16. So what's happening to this mechanism that means all of this will soon be forgotten? It's a paradox still waiting to be solved. If you have a young child, around 3-4 years-old, then you'll know they have the ability to store long-term memories of events that took place up to two years ago, even though they have virtually no understanding of time, they'll still remember vivid experiences. Other studies have since suggested that babies as young as three months may have similar abilities. Meltzoff's work showed that babies do have long-term memory processing. The next day, all the children repeated the same action - they had remembered it, recalled it and repeated it after many hours delay. One experiment involved letting children of 9, 14 and 24 months watch how an adult moved a toy in a very specific manner for just 20 seconds only. His work demonstrated sophisticated memory abilities in children as young as nine months. One American researcher, Andrew Meltzoff, has totally overturned our view of babies and intelligence over the last twenty years. They show accomplished learning skills from early on and studies have shown that they can even remember sounds they were exposed to whilst still in the womb. New born babies are much cleverer than previously thought. Recent research has challenged the belief that young babies have little or no capacity for long-term memory. In our brains, connections are everything and brain imaging studies on babies and toddlers suggest that between 8-24 months is when their brains are most active at growing more connections. Babies are born with billions of brain cells but relatively few connections between them and so the areas of the brain responsible for processing memories are immature. Yet another view is that young childrens' brains simply don't have the tools to store memory properly. Perhaps all of your childhood memories are still intact but in a form you can't access anymore. It may be that our memories need to be stored conceptually and associated with the kinds of words and meanings that we don't really get to grips with until we're about three years-old. Another theory points to our lack of language skills before the age of three. The most controversial belonged to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who believed childhood amnesia was a response to sexual repression. Why might childhood amnesia be happening? In general when people respond to surveys, there are far fewer memories before the age of eight than for other periods. Women tend to have better memories for this than men and on average could go back further than men. In studies, the average age of the earliest memory reported is about three-and-a-half years-old. Typically from before the first three and sometimes four years of life. Why might childhood amnesia be happening?Ĭhild or infantile amnesia refers to the general inability of people to remember specific events from the early years of their lives. ![]()
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