CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is the inability to recall most things that happened to us before the age of three years.
A
Displaced reference
B
Executive function
C
Infantile amnesia
D
Core knowledge
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The inability to remember life experiences before this age is called childhood amnesia. Adults do not explicitly remember life experiences that happened before age 3 or 4, even if those experiences were explicitly remembered at that time in childhood.

Detailed explanation-2: -Infantile amnesia refers to the fact that most people cannot remember events that occurred before the age of 3 or 4 (but see Fivush and Hamond, 1990; Usher and Neisser, 1993).

Detailed explanation-3: -Infantile amnesia, the inability of adults to recollect early episodic memories, is associated with the rapid forgetting that occurs in childhood.

Detailed explanation-4: -Memories: from birth to adolescence Adults rarely remember events from before the age of three, and have patchy memories when it comes to things that happened to them between the ages of three and seven. It’s a phenomenon known as ‘infantile amnesia’.

Detailed explanation-5: -The infantile amnesia definition is the loss of very early memories. Most people do not remember events from when they were a very young child. For instance, most people would not be able to recall their own first words or first steps.

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