What is autobiographical memory, and what prevents most people from recalling events prior to the age of three?

What will be an ideal response?


Autobiographical memory is memory for events in one's own life. Infantile amnesia accounts for the inability of most people to recall events in their infant years.

Psychology

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When individuals recover from dissociative fugue, the recovery is:

a. often slow, with some memories never completely returning b. often slow, but eventually all memories return c. often sudden and complete d. usually incomplete, with memories for events in the months just prior to the onset of the dissociation never returning

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Historians tell us that all of Abraham Lincoln's personality was dominated by the trait of honesty, which, according to Allport, would mean that this trait is a __________ trait

a. common b. cardinal c. source d. primary

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Which of the following factors increases the tendency to conform?

a. belonging to an individualistic society c. social shyness b. high self-esteem d. all of these

Psychology

Young infants cannot use motion to define objects

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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