编辑“童年失憶症”（章节）

=== 性别 ===
初次記憶的年齡存在著性別差異，[[女性]]的记忆通常比[[男性]]來得早<ref name="CrossCulture">{{Cite journal|last=MacDonald|first=Shelley|last2=Uesiliana|first2=Kimberly|last3=Hayne|first3=Harlene|date=2000-11|title=Cross-cultural and gender differences in childhood amnesia|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658210050156822|journal=Memory|language=en|volume=8|issue=6|doi=10.1080/09658210050156822|issn=0965-8211|pmid=11145068|access-date=2022-05-21|archive-date=2022-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706153506/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658210050156822}}</ref>。女性的最初記憶較早可能是因為與兒子相比，對女兒而言，母親的{{le|回憶|Reminiscence}}風格（reminiscentstyle）通常更細緻、更具評價性、更容易勾起情感，而這已被證明可產生更豐富細緻的童年記憶<ref name="CultureLanguage">{{Cite journal|last=Fivush|first=Robyn|last2=Nelson|first2=Katherine|date=2004-09|title=Culture and Language in the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00722.x|journal=Psychological Science|language=en|volume=15|issue=9|doi=10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00722.x|issn=0956-7976|pmid=15327626|access-date=2022-05-21|archive-date=2022-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521064201/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00722.x}}</ref>。跨文化的女性往往比男性拥有更多資訊密集的记忆，且女性在初次記憶中更傾向於提及他人<ref name="CrossCulture" /><ref name="BlackWhite">{{Cite journal|last=Fitzgerald|first=Joseph M.|date=2010-09|title=Culture, gender, and the first memories of black and white American students|url=http://link.springer.com/10.3758/MC.38.6.785|journal=Memory & Cognition|language=en|volume=38|issue=6|doi=10.3758/MC.38.6.785|issn=0090-502X|pmid=20852241}}</ref>。另一方面，男性的早期記憶更多是集中在個人自我上。研究也發現，男性比女性更容易提及負面記憶<ref name="CrossCulture" />。女孩更容易記住創傷事件和變遷事件，而男孩則更容易記住玩耍事件<ref name="EarliestMemories" />。早期記憶也被發現更准确地反映了對男性的友善和對女性的支配<ref name="InterpersonalStyle">{{Cite journal|last=Sarrazin|first=Claude|last2=Lacombe|first2=Daniel|last3=Alain|first3=Claude|last4=Joly|first4=Jacques|date=1983-12|title=Simulation study of a decision-making model of squash competition, phase one: The analysis of the protocol|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0167945783900234|journal=Human Movement Science|language=en|volume=2|issue=4|doi=10.1016/0167-9457(83)90023-4|access-date=2022-05-21|archive-date=2020-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607041847/https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0167945783900234}}</ref>。