Most older children can remember little if anything from the first three years of their life. This reflects the operation of infantile amnesia.
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What is infantile amnesia? Infantile amnesia refers to the phenomenon where individuals have limited or no memory of events that occurred during their early childhood, typically before the age of three. Show more…
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