Nonspeaking children have not learned the words that we use to index much of our explicit memory.This most clearly helps to explain the occurrence of
A) mood-congruent memory.
B) long-term potentiation.
C) flashbulb memory.
D) infantile amnesia.

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Nonspeaking children have not learned language yet, which is essential for encoding and retrieving memories. This lack of language ability is likely one of the factors contributing to infantile amnesia, the inability to remember events from our first few years of life.

Nonspeaking Children Have Not Learned the Words That We Use