Infantile/child Amnesia Is the Inability of Adults to Remember Events

question 98

Multiple Choice

Infantile/child amnesia is the inability of adults to remember events that occurred before about 3 years of age. This means that adults have no _____ memories for this time period.

• A) semantic
• B) implicit
• C) nondeclarative
• D) episodic

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Definitions:

Conditioned Taste Aversions

This refers to the phenomenon where an organism, after consuming a particular food and subsequently experiencing illness, develops a lasting aversion to that food.

Biological Constraints

Limitations on learning processes that are determined by the nature of an organism's biological makeup.

Positive Punishment

An operant conditioning principle where the addition of a stimulus after a behavior makes the behavior less likely to happen in the future.

Wearing Skirts

The act of dressing in skirts, which are garments fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs.