Why do negative consequences of sexual abuse during early childhood sometimes appear dormant until later life events, such as puberty or the onset of mature sexual relationships, "trigger" or evoke them? Explain the normal cognitive changes in memory storage and retrieval that contribute to this observation, and how the child's perception of these memories differs from other recalled or recognized verbal memories.
Introduction:- Early childhood period in an individual is very crucial because at this age we learn a lot of things in which some we remember and some decay, we learn about people and how to behave every step of a parent is very important in this stage for a child to learn and teach. If, in this stage, any type of sexual abuse is happening in an individual life which is very difficult to explain someone and even discuss can damage a lot to her mentally, may they built a behavior of distrust or isolation from society.
Such abuse mostly triggers them later also mostly in puberty or the onset of mature sexual relationships because at this stage they start developing their pubic region and start developing interest toward there opposite sex and this trigger that awful events of there life which stop them from making any new relation or develop relationship or bond.
Normal Cognitive changes in memory also contribute to this part as its a function of memory that to stores the memory and revise it remember and do not decay. If an individual who is a victim of sexual abuse and got a solution or discussed with a genenuine person then there is a chance that an individual leave that memory in past and move on but if he also revising it as a trauma then there is much chance that it will trigger and also disrupt his personality too.
Why do negative consequences of sexual abuse during early childhood sometimes appear dormant until later life...