Oh Where Have Those Early Memories Gone Summary
This paper serves as a reaction to the article “Oh Where, Oh Where Have Those Early Memories Gone? A Developmental Perspective on Childhood Amnesia” by Patricia J. Bauer, PhD. The article expresses the author’s thoughts on Childhood amnesia, rather the rates that children and adults forget early life experiences. It addresses forgetting rates of you children and adults. I agree with the author’s thoughts related to age progression and the rate of forgetting.
The article relates that the rate of forgetting as a child grows older begins to match the rate of forgetting that is expected of adults. Dr. Bauer a great deal of memory loss between the ages of three and seven. Dr. Bauer also states that the earliest memories verbalized are from
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