Research on building memory suggests that
A) children learn how to structure personally significant memories in narrative form by conversing about them with adults.
B) fuzzy traces are more likely than verbatim memories to be forgotten.
C) children begin to talk about the past with others sometime during their third year.
D) scripts often clutter long-term memory with unimportant information.

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Research suggests that children learn how to structure personally significant memories in narrative form by conversing about them with adults.

Answer: B 
 Fuzzy traces are more likely than verbatim memories to be forgotten.

Answer: C 
 Research suggests that children begin to talk about the past with others sometime during their third year.

Answer: D 
 Scripts are mental frameworks for organizing and interpreting information, and they actually help to streamline memory by reducing the amount of information that needs to be stored in long-term memory. They do not clutter memory with unimportant information.

Research on Building Memory Suggests That