Question

Bernice, a teenager, can remember her first day of kindergarten, but cannot seem to remember anything in her life that occurred before that. Bernice is likely experiencing

A) retrograde amnesia.
B) childhood repression.
C) infantile amnesia
D) an inability to reconstruct repressed memories.
E) anterograde amnesia.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Infantile amnesia

Step-by-step explanation:

Amnesia refers to the inability of remembering information including facts and past experiences. In most cases, amnesia is the result of brain damage; this includes retrograde and anterograde amnesia. In the case of infantile amnesia that refers to the inability of most people to remember events before they were 4 years old, this does not involve brain damage but is related to time and changes in language, encoding, and retrieval of memories.

Bernice is likely experiencing infantile amnesia because she cannot remember anything before her first day of kindergarten which might have occurred when she was around 4 years old. Also, there is no evidence Bernice suffered brain damage or trauma that would cause a different type of amnesia.