What do your earliest childhood memories say about you?
- Written by Penny Van Bergen, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, Macquarie University
The experience "this happened to me" is stronger than "this happened" in memory formation. epicharmus/flickr , CC BY-SA
We experience thousands of events across childhood, and yet as adults we recall only a handful. Some might be “firsts” (our first ice cream, our first day at school), or significant life events (the birth of a sibling,...
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