Children too young to speak have not learned the words that we use to index much of our explicit memory.This most clearly helps to explain the occurrence of
A) mood-congruent memory.
B) long-term potentiation.
C) flashbulb memory.
D) infantile amnesia.

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Infantile amnesia refers to the inability of adults to retrieve memories of events that occurred before the age of 3-4 years old. This is likely due to the fact that children at this age have not yet developed the ability to use words to encode and store explicit memories in the same way that adults do.

Children Too Young to Speak Have Not Learned the Words