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N L Stein

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PubMed1999

Remembering children's emotions: sources of concordant and discordant accounts between parents and children.

Parents were asked to recall recent events that had evoked happiness, sadness, anger, and fear in their children. Children (N = 77, 2.3-6.6 years) indicated whether they remembered each event, and if so, they described the event and how it had made them feel. Agreement between parent and child concerning how the child felt varied as a function of emotion. Children agreed with their parents' emotion attributions most often for events that parents recalled as having evoked happiness and sadness, less often for fear, and least often for anger. Children disagreed with parents' attributions of happiness and sadness most often when parents and children differed concerning the attribution of children's goals. Discordant reports about children's anger were most frequent when parents and children reported conflicting goals. Discordant reports about fear were most frequent when parents and children focused on different parts of the temporal sequence surrounding the event.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

Children's memory for emotional events: the importance of emotion-related retrieval cues.

Preschool children's memory for real life emotion episodes was assessed by first having their parents generate descriptions of recent events where they had actually observed their children experience happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. The 77 preschool children, 42 boys and 33 girls, were then presented with their parents' recollection of each precipitating event and asked to recall everything they could remember about the emotion episode. Instructions for facilitating retrieval varied across four conditions. In the Control Condition, children were presented with a precipitating event and were asked to recall the entire episode, without being given any emotion cue. In the Emotion Label Condition, children were presented with a precipitating event, were asked to generate a verbal label(s) that corresponded to their emotional reaction to the event, and were asked to recall the entire episode. In the Emotion Face Condition, children generated a verbal label for their emotional reaction, made a face that corresponded to their emotional reaction, and were asked to recall the entire episode. In the Emotion Reinstatement Condition, children labeled their emotional reaction, made a face, and were then asked to reinstate their original emotional reaction as though it were happening in the present. Almost all children recognized and agreed that the precipitating events described by their parents had occurred. Across all emotions, children instructed to use all three emotion cues generated the most detailed, goal-directed, and causally structured accounts, and also recalled more additional experiences associated with each emotion episode. These results show that the quantity, content, and organization of memory for emotional events are affected significantly by reinstatement of the original emotional reaction.

Child↗
PubMed1977

The effects of different modes of verbalization on the recognition of object detail in pictures.

The effects of different modes of verbalization on recognition memory of object detail were examined in first- and third-grade children and adults. The results indicated that both age of the subject and the type of verbalization used during initial picture viewing influenced recognition accuracy for object detail. When compared to nonverbal viewing groups, only specific types of verbalization increased recognition accuracy for third-grade and adult subjects. None of the modes of verbalization was effective in increasing first-grade recognition scores. The results indicate that general statements concerning the facilitating or inhibiting influence of verbalization on recognition memory must be qualified. In addition, the results showed that developmental differences in recognition accuracy are contingent upon the type of strategy used during the encoding process.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

The "chubby puffer" syndrome. Upper airway obstruction and obesity, with intermittent somnolence and cardiorespiratory embarrassment.

Upper airway obstruction and obesity can produce cardiopulmonary distress in susceptible children. Three such children with chronic airway obstruction due to hypertrophied tonsillar and adenoidal tissue developed pronounced obesity, which in turn helped to provoke sleep alterations, cardiac signs, and abnormal arterial blood gas values. After tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy the symptoms were relieved.

Adenoidectomy↗
PubMed1975

Development of detection and recognition of orientation of geometric and real figures.

Black and white kindergarten and second-grade children were tested for accuracy of detection and recognition of orientation and location changes in pictures of real-world and geometric figures. No differences were found in accuracy of recognition between the 2 kinds of pictures, but patterns of verbalization differed on specific transformations. Although differences in accuracy were found between kindergarten and second grade on an initial recognition task, practice on a matching-to-sample task eliminated differences on a second recognition task. Few ethnic differences were found on accuracy of recognition, but significant differences were found in amount of verbal output on specific transformations. For both groups, mention of orientation changes was markedly reduced when location changes were present.

Black or African American↗