Childhood is a wonderful and a happy period. How often do we dream about going back to the early years of our life and to remember the details and the feeling of those years? However, we note with regret that a lot of our memories have been forgotten and over the years the images have become increasingly blurred. Each of us holds many childhood experiences in mind, however, even with a strong desire, we cannot remember every single one of them. None of the adults can remember the time of their birth and early life. Our memories are cut off from approximately 3-7 years old. Such a phenomenon psychologists call infantile amnesia. The term "infantile amnesia" was brought by Sigmund Freud in 1899. According to Freud, the adults are not able to remember the events of the first 3-5 years of life, as in the first years of life the child is experiencing aggressive and sexual impulses often against their parents.
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Why are we so bad at remembering the childhood? While scientists and psychologists have not come to a single version, there are several theories about what is the cause of infantile amnesia. Some scientists believe that a child cannot retain memories, because he has not yet become an independent person and didn’t separate himself from the outside world and does not know what exactly his own experience is. The process of forming memories involved a network of nerve cells, which is created in 6-18 months. At this stage the short-term and long-term memory forms. But if our memory has reached the desired level, why do we forget our childhood? It turns out that this is due to the lack of opportunities to link the event with the words, because we still cannot speak and do not know the words to describe an event.It is difficult to remember the moments before and after the birth when we still do not know how to speak. However, there are cases where people can save small memories and sensations of their early
Why are we so bad at remembering the childhood? While scientists and psychologists have not come to a single version, there are several theories about what is the cause of infantile amnesia. Some scientists believe that a child cannot retain memories, because he has not yet become an independent person and didn’t separate himself from the outside world and does not know what exactly his own experience is. The process of forming memories involved a network of nerve cells, which is created in 6-18 months. At this stage the short-term and long-term memory forms. But if our memory has reached the desired level, why do we forget our childhood? It turns out that this is due to the lack of opportunities to link the event with the words, because we still cannot speak and do not know the words to describe an event.It is difficult to remember the moments before and after the birth when we still do not know how to speak. However, there are cases where people can save small memories and sensations of their early