Dissociative disorders that are believed to develop from childhood sexual abuse are often considered to include amnesia for childhood events, particularly the events that involve the abuse itself. One unresolved issue is the extent to which memory recovery attempts can contribute to claims of having amnestic symptoms. Experiments with undergraduate subjects reveal that requiring more reports of childhood events will increase judgments of having poorer memory of one’s childhood. The results are consistent with the use of heuristics when one is reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, as experienced difficulty in remembering more experiences is attributed to the incompleteness of childhood memory. The findings challenge the validity of reports of childhood amnesia that follow memory recovery attempts.

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回忆更多的童年事件会导致对记忆力较差的判断：对恢复/错误记忆力的争论的含义

人们认为，从儿童时期的性虐待发展而来的分离性障碍通常包括针对儿童事件的健忘症，尤其是涉及虐待本身的事件。一个尚未解决的问题是记忆恢复尝试可在多大程度上有助于引起记忆删除症状。对本科生的实验表明，需要更多有关儿童事件的报道，将会增加对儿童童年记忆力较差的判断。当人们在不确定性条件下进行推理时，结果与启发式方法的使用是一致的，因为记住更多经验的经历困难归因于童年记忆的不完整。这一发现挑战了记忆力恢复尝试后儿童健忘症报告的有效性。