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Aliyah Matthias
on Dec 22, 2024
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Which of the following offers the best explanation for infantile amnesia?
A) The hippocampus is one of the last brain structures to mature.
B) The emotional reactivity of infants inhibits the process of encoding.
C) The accumulation of life experiences disrupts the retrieval of early life events.
D) Iconic memories last for less than a second in infants.
Infantile Amnesia
The inability of adults to recall autobiographical memories from early childhood, typically before the age of three or four.
Hippocampus
A key region of the brain involved in memory formation, organization, and retrieval.
Encoding
The process by which information is transformed into formats that can be stored in memory.
- Acquiring knowledge about the differentiation among explicit, implicit, and emotional memories.
- Acquiring knowledge on how neural mechanisms contribute to the formation, conservation, and recovery of memories.
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CA
Learning Objectives
- Acquiring knowledge about the differentiation among explicit, implicit, and emotional memories.
- Acquiring knowledge on how neural mechanisms contribute to the formation, conservation, and recovery of memories.