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Autobiographical Memory

  • The inability to form memories isn't what keeps us from remembering things from when we were babies.
  • Memories aren't always exact replicas of what actually happened to us; they can be constructed and reconstructed over time
  • In fact, children are especially susceptible to suggestion in their remembering of events.

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