Blogpost 5: Childhood Amnesia

When I was a kid, I love going to supermarket together with my mom. What I love about it, is that I used ride at that mini cart and it serves as a cart wheel where my mom puts on the foods, things and every other house expenses. Childhood is the best thing ever that we all encountered in every step of our life.  No struggles at all, live through playing, fun, happiness and freedom. The world seemed to be a place of joy and happiness to me. There was nothing worth worrying about.

I found a interesting article entitled New insights intothe perplexing puzzle of childhood amnesia by Susan Perry before the age of 3.  Few of us can recall the events/happening in our lives that happened. Sigmund Freud called this “black hole” in autobiographical memory infantile amnesia, but nowadays scientist called this as childhood amnesia. Yet, parents do know that their child can still remember autobiographical memories. It concludes that how a parents communicate to their preschoolers might influence how many facts their children will shortly recall about quick happenings in their lives

This articles says that “Memory offers some new insight into this perplexing phenomenon” Our brain attempts to accept the error that’s trigger us to have a feeling of awareness although at the same time realizing the familiar feeling can’t be actual.

On the other article I found. Remember When?: Infantile Amnesia by DUJS These large memory gaps of stories are hard to seal, thereby constructing a disconnect among one stage of life and another. For example, how does autobiographical memory shape infantile amnesia? Autobiographical memory or own memory is a type of memory that is established for encoding, storing, and retrieving events and practices to build one’s individual past. Psychologists have proven that autobiographical memory lessens the restraints of this specific amnesia

 This article tells that “Memory is a difficult term to define”  it’s mostly outer of our understanding, but can be called into working memory to be spent when taken. Certain of this data is quite easy to remember, while further memories are much more difficult to gain.

As our life goes on, we tend to recall our episodic childhood days. Even if its embarrassing, worst or a happy one, Always remember that a memory may always be obtainable, Nevertheless a person may perhaps not be able to access the memory for various reasons.