Researchers have coined the term infantile amnesia to explain the fact that

A. infants have only explicit memories.
B. people have few autobiographical memories before the age of three.
C. people have a limited amount of storage and as they acquire "new" memories, "old" memories (from infancy) drop out.
D. information processing occurs at a very early age, but metacognition develops much later.


Answer: B

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