Psychologists have offered three of the following as possible explanations for the phenomenon of infantile amnesia. Which one have they not suggested?
A) Infants have virtually no working memory capacity.
B) Most of what infants learn takes the form of implicit rather than explicit knowledge.
C) Infants cannot yet talk about their experiences and so have trouble encoding them in forms that are easily retrieved.
D) Infants' brains are insufficiently mature to think about things in the ways that older children and adults do.

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Infantile amnesia refers to the inability of adults to recall personal memories from the first few years of life. Psychologists have not suggested that infants have virtually no working memory capacity as an explanation for infantile amnesia. Instead, explanations focus on the nature of memory formation and retrieval, such as the development of language and cognitive abilities, and the distinction between implicit and explicit memory.

Psychologists Have Offered Three of the Following as Possible Explanations