首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
What’s your earliest memory? Do you remember learning to walk? The birth of a sibling? Nursery school? Adults rarely remember ev
What’s your earliest memory? Do you remember learning to walk? The birth of a sibling? Nursery school? Adults rarely remember ev
admin
2014-06-13
56
问题
What’s your earliest memory? Do you remember learning to walk? The birth of a sibling? Nursery school? Adults rarely remember events from much before kindergarten, just as children younger than 3 or 4 seldom recall any specific experiences (as distinct from general knowledge). Psychologists have floated all sorts of explanations for this "childhood amnesia". The reductionists appealed to the neurological, arguing that the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for forming memories, doesn’t mature until about the age of 2. But the reigning theory holds that since adults do not think like children, they cannot access childhood memories. Adults are struck with grown-up "schema", the bare bones of narratives. (46)
When they riffle through the mental filing cabinet in search of fragments of childhood memories to hang on this narrative skeleton, according to this theory, they don’t find any that fit.
It’s like trying to find the French word in an English index.
Now psychologist Katherine Nelson of the City University of New York offers a new explanation for childhood amnesia. (47)
She argues that children don’t even form lasting, long-term memories of personal experiences until they learn to use someone else’s description of those experiences to turn their own short-term, fleeting recollections into permanent memories.
In other words, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about them — hear Mom recount that day’s trip to the dinosaur museum, hear Dad remember aloud their trip to the amusement park.
Why should memory depend so heavily on narrative? Nelson marshals evidence that the mind structures remembrances that way. (48)
Children whose mothers talk about the day’s activities as they wind down toward bedtime, for instance, remember more of the day’s special events than do children whose mothers don’t offer this novelistic framework.
Talking about an event in a narrative way helps a child remember it. (49)
And learning to structure memories as a long-running narrative, Nelson suggests, is the key to a permanent "autobiographical memory", the specific remembrances that form one’s life story.
(What you had for lunch yesterday isn’t part of it; what you ate on your first date with your future spouse may be. )
Language, of course, is the key to such a narrative. Children learn to engage in talking about the past. The establishment of these memories is related to the experience of talking to other people about them. (50)
In particular, a child must recognize that a retelling — of that museum trip, say — is just the trip itself in another medium, that of speech rather than experience.
That doesn’t happen until the child is perhaps four or five. By the time she’s ready for kindergarten she’ll remember all sorts of things. And she may even, by then, have learned not to blurt them out in public.
选项
答案
And learning to structure memories as a long-running narrative,Nelson suggests,is the key to a permanent“autobiographical memory”,the specific remembrances that form one’s life story.
解析
插入语的翻译;同位语的翻译;that引导的定语从句的翻译
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/IZO4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextabouthappiness.Choosethemostsuitableheadingfromthelistforeachnum
YouaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextaboutunknownknowledgeonAIDS.Choosethemostsuitableheadingfromthel
WhichofthefollowingheadingsisthatofParagraphTwo?Innuclearfusion,twonucleicometogetherand______.
Oneofthemostimportantresultsofresearchintoageinghasbeentopinpointthesignificanceofshort-termmemory.Thisfacul
Inthetwodecadesbetween1910and1930,overtenpercenttotheBlackpopulationoftheUnitedStateslefttheSouth,whereth
Therehasbeenadiscussionrecentlyontheissueofjob-hopping.Writeanessaytothenewspaperto1.showyourunderstand
Readingandwritinghavelongbeenthoughtofascomplementaryskills:toreadistorecognizeandinterpretlanguagethathasb
Readingandwritinghavelongbeenthoughtofascomplementaryskills:toreadistorecognizeandinterpretlanguagethathasb
随机试题
知一信一行模式中,行为改变的基础是【】
盐度周期性变化明显的生态系统是()
子宫增大不会出现在
正态分布的数值变量资料,描述离散趋势的指标最好选用
Vitali反应可用以鉴别的药物为
孙某投资设立了一家个人独资企业,在下列哪些情况下,该个人独资企业应当解散?
评估中常用的逻辑分析方法主要有()。
在教学中为了实现知识的迁移,教师应该应用(),使学生在学习和思维中将事物的非本质属性从本质属性中剔除,更好地掌握概念问的因果联系。
2014年我国实施“单独两孩”生育政策,出生人口1687万人,比上年增加47万人。2016年实施“全面两孩”生育政策,出生人口1786万人,比上年增加131万人;出生率与“十二五”时期年平均出生率相比,提高了0.84个千分点。201
在采用三级模式结构的数据库系统中,如果对数据库中的表Emp创建聚簇索引,那么改变的是数据库的______。
最新回复
(
0
)