'Oldest memory' may have a one-year error
Everyone should remember the 'oldest memory' of their childhood. How old the memory is depends on the individual, but a new study shows that 'the oldest memory may be a year older than you think.' I found that there is a possibility.
Full article: What is your earliest memory? It depends
What Is Your Earliest Memory? Can Start From the Age of Two-and-a-Half According to New Research
Carole Peterson, a psychologist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, said in a study that what many people remember as 'what happened at the age of three' is actually 'what happened at the age of two.' I made it clear that it might be.
Peterson sought out 'oldest memories' from more than 300 children and matched them with their parents' memories, saying that children who talked about what happened before the age of four said the event happened later than it really was. He misunderstood, and on the contrary, the child who talked about the event after the age of 4 thought that the date when the event occurred was earlier than the actual date. Furthermore, when I asked the same subject again two years and eight years after this survey, most of the answers had a date difference from the first answer, and on average they answered one and a half years later. is. This study has a one-year error in the existing study that 'the average age of human memory is 3.5 years old', suggesting that the oldest human memory is about 2.5 years old on average. I will.
Furthermore, when asked again about the event that he first spoke of as 'the oldest memory,' few children remembered it, but he often remembered it by giving clues to his memory. Peterson also said, 'I don't know why, but some element in my memory,' he said, as he sometimes remembered 'older memories' that quite a few children, adolescents, and adults didn't talk about last time. It's certainly a clue to remember another memory. '
'The oldest memories people remember may actually be dated more than a year earlier, and people tend to forget their preschool memories, but ask a few questions. It seems relatively easy to remind me of old memories. '
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