Question

Some psychologists ascribe infantile amnesia to the immaturity of the _____ among very young children.

Answer 1

Infantile amnesia may be due to the immaturity of the memory system. There are two known explanation for this phenomenon. The first one is the inability of infants to remember declarative-like memories due to underdeveloped neural structure. The second one is that Piagetian theory believes that memory recall is a product of the development of infancy and not due to the fact of its immediate presence upon infancy.

Answer 2

The immature hippocampus is the cause of childhood amnesia among young children according to some psychologists. The idea arises that we can not code a memory before having a linguistic concept for each data. The hippocampus is key to coding and storing episodic memory, and it does not mature until much later in our childhood and our brains were not ready to save those first memories.