Emotional memory in preschool children from different socio-environmental backgrounds
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memory, emotions, children, socio-environmental conditions, developmentAbstract
Long-term memory of information with different valences (i.e., positive, negative) is called emotional memory. Various individual and socio-environmental factors are associated with variations in young children's memory recall. In this study, the performance in an emotional memory task of 4-year-old girls and boys from homes with different socio-environmental conditions was analyzed. The information obtained through free recall and recognition of previously presented images was compared. Differences were found in the free memory of negative images and the number of remembered images: girls remembered more images compared to boys. No differences were found in the recognition of images based on the sex of the participants, although it was found that the group with unfavourable socio-environmental conditions presented greater recognition of neutral images than the group with favourable conditions.
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