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Unit 5 – Cognitive Psychology
Topic 5.1
Why do we often have difficulty remembering information from our early childhood?
Memory loss occurs due to lack of language skills needed for encoding at that age
Early childhood experiences are usually unimportant so they're forgotten.
This phenomenon is known as infantile amnesia.
The encoding process isn’t fully developed during early childhood years.
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