Try as She Might, Zoë Cannot Remember Anything from the First

question 461

Multiple Choice

Try as she might, Zoë cannot remember anything from the first three years of her life. Which of the following is not one of the explanations for infantile amnesia?

• A)Infants do not encode early experiences deeply and fail to form rich retrieval cues for them.
• B)Brain structures that encode long-term episodic memories are immature in the first years after birth.
• C)The creation of new memories interferes with the retrieval of early childhood memories.
• D)Infants lack a clear sense of self, so they have no personal frame of reference around which to organize rich memories.
• E)There are currently no viable theories to explain infantile amnesia.