earilest memory

[sketchy]

ikea boys thread got me thinking about this. my short term memory is ok. even recent events, but my childhood is lost. i think i might have pretty well destroyed most of my childhood memories in college with various and abundant chemicals. most of memories are now more like snapshots or i only remember seeing a picture of the event not the event itself.

my eariliest memory is when i was in kindergarten. before that i dont remember anything. the ones after that are few and far between. should i be remembering events from before that?

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[furie]

my earliest memory is when i was four. i had taken off my shoes(apparently i didn't like shoes then) and was walking barefoot in a park in brooklyn. I cut my foot real bad. that's as far back as i go.



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This message was edited by furie on 8-7-02 @ 8:40 PM

[Gwen]

Prolly being about 2 or so and beinga t my grandparents anniversary party and there was a guy in a chicken suit.

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[Sheeplovr]

I can only rember Getting a doll for cristmass i think that might be my earlyest memorey

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[HordeKing1]

Piaget was the psychiatrist who developed the model of the development of our cognitive abilities.

In a nutshell he says that babies do not think like adults. Their thinking patterns and thoughts are substanitively different during each stage of development. Eventually, around adolescence kids gain the ability to think as adults (abstract reasoning).

One of the reasons we don't remember anything about our early childhood is because we think differently now than we did then. Our brain just did not process information the same way.

Very very few people can remember anything earlier than 2 or 3 and most can't remember anything before they were 6.

At age 6 or 7 kids begin to utilize something called "concrete operational thought." The word "concrete" is used to distinguish this from the hypothetical reasoning of adolescents and adults. Kids learn and use conservation, classification and combination skills to gain a better understanding of the logic, order, and predictability of the physical world. Three important concepts are mastered:
1. Conservation - Physical mater doesn't magically appear or disappear despite changes in form
2. Classification - The ability to identify properties of categories and apply them to all members of the categories (All liquids can be poured).
3. Metacognition - How we know that we know.



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