In contrast to Freud, Loftus and others have proposed that early experiences from infancy cannot be remembered because
A)the memories do not exist because they were not encoded or were lost through decay
B)the memories are repressed
C)the memories exist only as emotional experiences that cannot be verbally expressed
D)the memories are too emotionally upsetting to recall

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Loftus and others propose that early experiences from infancy cannot be remembered because the memories do not exist because they were not encoded or were lost through decay. This means that the brain does not store memories from infancy, or those memories that were once in the brain could not be retrieved due to decay.

In Contrast to Freud, Loftus and Others Have Proposed That