Four-years-old Karen can't remember anything of the first few months of her life. This is best explained by the fact that:
Correct answer: A. she lacked language skills for organizing her early life experiences
- A. she lacked language skills for organizing her early life experiences
- B. experiences shortly after birth area a meaning less blue of darkness and light
- C. later experiences in life interfered with Karen's earlier memories
- D. most brain cells do not yet exist at the time of birth
Explanation
This is infantile amnesia: early memories are difficult to retrieve partly because infants lack the language and mature self-organisation needed to encode autobiographical experiences. The other choices incorrectly attribute the forgetting to absent brain cells or meaningless early experience.
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