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jman1234

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What is autobiographical memory, and what prevents most people from recalling events prior to the age of three?
 
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The unique characteristics that distinguish a person from other members of a larger group are called developmental markers.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Autobiographical memory is memory for events in one's own life. Infantile amnesia accounts for the inability of most people to recall events in their infant years.

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