Studies of Children Raised in Isolation, Show That

question 61

Multiple Choice

Studies of children raised in isolation, show that

• A) humans have most of the same instincts found in other animal species.
• B) personality is present in humans at birth.
• C) without social experience, a child is incapable of thought or meaningful action.
• D) many human instincts appear but only after the first few years of life.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories interfere with the recall of newer memories.

Encoding Failure

A situation where information does not get stored in long-term memory due to insufficient encoding during the learning phase.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder where one can recall certain information but is unable to remember where, when, or how they learned that information.

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.