TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - "Amnesia" for summer camps and high school graduation: memory work increases reports of prior periods of remembering less
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Read, J. D.
A1  - Lindsay, D. Stephen
SP  - 129
EP  - 147
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - Claims regarding amnesia for childhood sexual abuse have often been based on studies of adults' responses to questions of the form, "Was there ever a period of time when you remembered less of the abuse than you do now?" In this experiment, 43 adult (mean age = 42) participants rated their current and prior memories of several nontraumatic childhood/adolescent events. Reports of prior periods of less memory were fairly common. Participants then engaged in "reminiscence" or "enhanced" retrieval activities directed toward remembering more about a selected target event. Following retrieval, 35% of the reminiscence condition participants reported prior poor memory for the target event, as did 70% of the enhanced condition. These results highlight the need for appropriate control conditions in retrospective studies of amnesia for childhood trauma.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007781100204
ID  - ref1
ER  -