Which of the following is a likely explanation for early childhood amnesia?
a. Children form memories but repress them because of their traumatic content.
b. The hippocampus is not yet mature enough to establish episodic memories.
c. New hippocampal neurons promote learning but also promote forgetting.
d. Head trauma leads to retrograde amnesia.
c
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a) is the same thing as stress. b) sharply delineates the distinction between self and object. c) enhances the security base of an activity. d) is an inevitable characteristic of being human.
Given the research findings in this chapter, explain how you would respond to your own children when they do things that you do but that you do not want them to mirror. When would you use positive reinforcement? When would you use punishment to teach them things? When would you use negative reinforcement? What kinds of reinforcement schedules would you use? (Be sure that you clearly differentiate
between reinforcement and punishment, negative and positive reinforcement, and negative reinforcement and punishment) What will be an ideal response?