CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
THE AVERAGE AGE OF OUR EARLIEST CONSCIOUS MEMORY IS?
A
5 YEARS OF AGE
B
4 YEARS OF AGE
C
3.5 YEARS OF AGE
D
3 YEARS OF AGE
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Individual Differences. Whereas more than a century of research has revealed age 3–3.5 years as the average age of earliest memory, from the beginning of the study of adults’ early autobiographical memories, individual differences in the age of earliest memory have been apparent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Current research indicates that people’s earliest memories date from around 3 to 3.5 years of age.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -A: Many three-year-olds can remember events from when they were one or two, although you are right that these very early memories tend to be forgotten bit by bit, so that most teenagers and adults are unable to remember much before they were four or five.

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