Effects of stress on memory in children and adolescents: testing causal connections.

摘要: Although a sizeable body of research has examined children's memory for stressful prior experiences, relatively few studies have experimentally manipulated stress during to-be-remembered event to draw causal inferences about the effects stress, especially across wide age ranges. We exposed children and adolescents more or less arousing version Trier Social Stress Test-Modified (TSST-M), widely used laboratory task. Two weeks later, we tested their what happened. Interviewers behaved in supportive non-supportive manner. In adolescents, those who completed high-arousal TSST-M provided fewer correct responses recognition questions incorrect misleading which any answer would been incorrect, compared lower-arousal TSST-M. Thus, arousal seemed reduced adolescents' willingness rather than having influenced per se. children, condition...