Essay On Infant Amnesia

As the oldest daughter, I have to look after my younger siblings with my older brother whenever my parents are not home. Since the younger siblings are older than seven, most of them know not to do anything that will get them in trouble. I never knew how hard life can be as a mother and yet how amazing it is to watch a baby grow until my youngest sister was born. The moment Kayla was born, I became her second mother and everywhere we went, people will mistake her as my daughter because we have similar features. Kayla was a baby and had no idea about the world around her. As she grew older, she started to know more and learn new things every day. Kayla also have a better memory of things she have done before completely forgetting what she did. I remembered one time when Kayla she got a piece of the puzzle from under the bed to showed to my mom. She asked Kayla to show her where she got the puzzles from. Kayla, a little over one year old, ran toward the bed to show where she got the pieces of puzzles from. I was amazed that she can remember where it was from.
Infant amnesia is the difficulty adults have of remembering the first year of childhood.
A reason for kids to not remember the first year of anything during their first few months in the world may be due to brain immaturity. According to Andrew N. Meltzoff:
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One task is a mobile task with infants as young as two- to six-months-old. The other task is a tain task done with six- to eighteen-months-old. In the mobile task, infants have to move the crib by kicking a ribbon strung between the mobile and one ankle. The rate they kick before the ankle ribbon is connected to the mobile is the baseline for comparison with their kick rate during the subsequent recognition test. In the train task, infants move a train around a circular train track by depressing a lever. Retention is tested when the level is