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accident,  broke a front tooth, dim memory

Example of memory loss before the age of 7 years

What is the example of memory loss?

1. Nearly-4-year-old girl suffered the accident and broke a front tooth but she probably won’t remember any of this when she’s an adult

§2

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 childhood amnesia, phenomenon, 

memories 

Childhood amnesia as a cause of this phenomenon

What is the cause of memory loss?

2. Kids can remember events before the age of 3, but when they’re a bit older, early memories are lost – this is childhood amnesia phenomenon

§3

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 the cause, baffling memory-loss, precipitous growth

Possible explanation for the phenomenon

What is the explanation of the phenomenon?

3. The precipitous growth of new cells in the hippocampus during infancy may be a possible cause of childhood amnesia

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 research, groups of 3-year olds, interview

The preventing access to memories problem and it’s research

What is the essence of an experiment to study the mechanism of childhood memories?

4. Scientists make a research where they had interviewed groups of 3-year olds about events that had happened over the prior three months and then asked children about these events 3 years later

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Result, 60% of events, 40% or fewer of the events

Result of the research

What is the result of the research?

5. The kids between 5 and 7 years remembered over 60% of events, 8 and 9 remembered 40% or fewer of the events, and they had begun to talk about their memories in a different way.

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biological processes, neural structures

Explanatory hypothesis of childhood amnesia

What is the explanation of childhood amnesia?

6.  It has to do with basic biological processes, as neural structures undergo a lot of postnatal development.

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parents

Parental influence on the children memories  stability

How can parents affect on children memories?

7. Parents can asking lots of questions like "Tell me more" and "What happened?" and allowing the kids to guide the description to make children’s memories more robust 

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different points in development, studies

Further studies of the problem

What are further studies consist on?

8. Further studies consist on  interviewing children about memories at different points in their development

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earliest memories

Bauer hypothesis about the childhood amnesia causes

What is the hypothesis of childhood amnesia causes?

9.  The earliest memories tend to be ones filled with emotion, either positive or negative.