What Evidence Indicates That Infant Amnesia Is Not Due to Failure

question 183

Multiple Choice

What evidence indicates that infant amnesia is not due to failure to establish episodic memories?​

• A)Young children can describe events that happened months ago.
• B)​Under hypnosis, adults can accurately describe events from early childhood.
• C)​In adults, hippocampal damage impairs retrieval of episodic memories.
• D)​People in many non-Western countries easily recall events of early childhood.

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Selective Abstraction

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Overgeneralizing

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