High school seniors Meera and Karen are talking about memories.Meera says that she can remember a song she learned when she was a year old.Karen disagrees and says that's not likely.Why?
A) We do not verbally encode before the age of 3 1/2.
B) Memory does not start operating until the age of 3 1/2.
C) A one-year-old's attention span is so poor that a child that young cannot encode anything.
D) Long-term memory does not exist in children that young.

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Research has shown that we do not have the ability to verbally encode memories before the age of 3 1/2. While a child at one year old may be able to form some memories, they would not be able to verbally recall a song learned at that age.

High School Seniors Meera and Karen Are Talking About Memories