High school seniors Meera and Karen are talking about memories. Meera says that she can remember a song she learned when she was a year old. Karen disagrees and says that's not likely. Why?
A. We do not verbally encode before the age of 3 1/2.
B. Memory does not start operating until the age of 3 1/2.
C. A one-year-old's attention span is so poor that a child that young cannot encode anything.
D. Long-term memory does not exist in children that young.
Answer: A
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