Research on Building Memory Suggests That

question 95

Multiple Choice

Research on building memory suggests that

• A) children learn how to structure personally significant memories in narrative form by conversing about them with adults.
• B) fuzzy traces are more likely than verbatim memories to be forgotten.
• C) children begin to talk about the past with others sometime during their third year.
• D) scripts often clutter long-term memory with unimportant information.

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