Simcock and Hayne (2002) presented two-, three-, and four-year-old children with a demonstration of their "incredible shrinking machine." When the children were brought back one year later, they found that:
A)children only recalled items if the words for those items were in the vocabulary at the time of presentation.
B)only the oldest children could remember any of the objects seen.
C)because of the onset of childhood amnesia, only the four-year-olds showed deficits in memory.
D)recall was predicted by the level of trauma in each child's life.

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The study found that children only remembered items that were in their vocabulary at the time of the presentation, indicating that language development plays a crucial role in memory retention in young children.

Simcock and Hayne (2002) Presented Two-, Three-, and Four-Year-Old Children