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| Carole PetersonSummaryAffiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland Country: Canada Publications
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A distant mirror: memories of parents and friends across childhood and adolescenceCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Canada
Br J Psychol 101:601-20. 2010..It was concluded that memories of different periods of childhood and adolescence can serve as a reflective mirror for developmental changes in parent-child and friendship relationships...
'I was just screeching!': comparing child and parent derived measures of distressCarole Peterson
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada
Stress Health 28:279-88. 2012..Findings suggest that children's self-descriptions of emotional reactions may be a useful tool for assessing children's distress for real-world events with no adult witnesses...
Infantile amnesia across the years: a 2-year follow-up of children's earliest memoriesCarole Peterson
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Child Dev 82:1092-105. 2011..In contrast, older children were more likely to recall the same memories, and cues to former memories were successful. Thus, older children were becoming consistent in terms of recalling very early memories...
Children's memory reports over time: Getting both better and worseCarole Peterson
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 109:275-93. 2011..Only accuracy (of both types of information) deteriorated. Thus, different aspects of their interviews changed in different ways over 2 years. Implications for assessing changes over time in child witness reports are discussed...
Parent-child relationship quality and infantile amnesia in adultsCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Canada
Br J Psychol 101:719-37. 2010....
"When I was little": childhood recollections in Chinese and European Canadian grade school childrenCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland A1B 3X9, Canada
Child Dev 80:506-18. 2009..Content of Canadian versus Chinese children's memories reflected an autonomous versus relational self-construal. Results are discussed in terms of sociocultural influences on memory...
Hospital emergency rooms and children's health care attitudesCarole Peterson
Memorial University of Newfoundland
J Pediatr Psychol 27:281-91. 2002..For comparison, health care attitudes of a large random sample of children were assessed...
Parental influences on earliest memoriesCarole Peterson
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Memory 16:569-78. 2008..For women, the warmer the relationship with their mothers, the earlier their earliest memory. Results are discussed in terms of gendered parent-child interactions as well as McAdam's emergent life-story theory...
Interviewing former 1- and 2-year olds about medical emergencies 5 years laterCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada, A1B 3X9
Law Hum Behav 29:743-54. 2005..Forensic implications are discussed...
Childhood amnesia in children and adolescents: their earliest memoriesCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X9
Memory 13:622-37. 2005..Overall, results deepen the paradox of early memory: 6--9-year-olds have verbally accessible memories from very early childhood that then seem to disappear as they get older...
Providing misleading and reinstatement information a year after it happened: effects on long-term memoryCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Canada
Memory 12:1-13. 2004..Results were attributed to target events having been highly memorable and well rehearsed via previous recalls, and detection of discrepancies between memory and misleading information focusing attention on targeted details...
Like mother, like daughter: similarities in narrative styleCarole Peterson
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Canada
Dev Psychol 39:551-62. 2003..This suggests a special status for mother-daughter dyads in terms of how events come to be linguistically represented in narrative...
The relationship of parenting stress and child temperament to language development among economically disadvantaged preschoolersMelanie Noel
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada
J Child Lang 35:823-43. 2008..Results are interpreted in terms of the possible mediating role of parent-child interactions in children's oral language skill development, and future directions for family intervention are discussed...
When initial interviews are delayed a year: effect on children's 2-year recallCarole Peterson
Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Canada
Law Hum Behav 29:527-41. 2005..Forensic implications are discussed...
