Characteristics of children\'s memory

Less 1, remember, forget faster

Time scope of children\'s memory and memory retention is expanded and extended upward as age increases. 1 about a small range of children\'s memory, at first only recognize mother, loved ones, and then to recognize things around again. Their memory retention time is very short, for example, to separate them and live with relatives for a month, meet again, you do not know; on a course to kindergarten children learn a children\'s song or a story, soon forgotten.

2, memory lacking purpose

Preschool on children\'s memory is hard to obey a purposeful activity, their memories to the unconscious mind, they only object of the image sharp, strong emotional experience interesting things or things to remember. To young children will remember specifically as a purposeful activity is difficult. Children under the age of 5, 6 developed conscious ability, such as adult entrusted him to do something, he will use a simple method of memory such as adults, to remember this one thing. After primary school, under the influence of the education, the ability to consciously remember faster development.

3, memory method for rigid

Adult memories usually understood to be remembering things, identify the main characteristics and internal relations of things, main part of the screen to abandon things non-, meaning memorizing, and due to the limitations of knowledge and experience of the child would not carry out this analysis, more on the surface to mechanical memorizing things. For example, adults and children at the same time meet a first met people, adults remember is this man\'s appearance features, and the child may remember is the man\'s clothing color, and so on. Preschool children are not completely meaningless memorizing, that they can understand memorizing things will also be some significance.

4, memory is not accurate

Children\'s memories of accuracy is also increased with age. Accurate performance in memory of young children\'s memory is not full, confused, distorted facts and vulnerability implied, among others. Such as child care to listen to a story, he remembered a detail of interest only, the entire plot of the story but remember, or mixed with the plot of the story. And if a mother asked back in kindergarten children, did my uncle to kindergarten to see you today? He answered that Yes, in fact his uncle did not come today, but came a few days ago, he was asked by mother will think that it is today came. This is because memory caused by the imprecise with fictitious implementations to add memory. As the age of this situation will change.