Jack et al. (2012) tracked down the children who had participated in the “magic shrinking machine” experiment six years later when the children varied from age 8 to age 10. They found that:
a. The children had all entered the childhood amnesia phase and could not recall the event.
b. Some, but not all, of the children could recall the event and some of the items that had been “shrunk.”
c. At the older age, children could only remember items that were not in their vocabulary as younger children.
d. none of the above are true.
Ans: b
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