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===Childhood Amnesia===

Childhood amnesia is a phenomenon that ranges from the age of 3–8 years of age.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite book|title=Handbook of child psychology and developmental science|others=Lerner, Richard M.|date = 31 March 2015|isbn=978-1-118-95296-2|edition=Seventh|___location=Hoboken, New Jersey|oclc=888026377}}</ref> This phenomenon occurs when a child has forgotten memories and cannot recall them.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> For instance, when a certain event isseems forgotten, it canmay be accessible in the mindsmind's storage and thewith time limit depending ofon other factors, would be over a time of monthmonths or perhaps a year.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In amnesia it is not easily accessible.<ref>{{Citation|last=Pennington|first=Bruce F.|title=Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science|chapter=Atypical Cognitive Development|date=2015-03-23|pages=1–48|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|doi=10.1002/9781118963418.childpsy223|isbn=978-1-118-96341-8}}</ref>

[[Infantile amnesia]] is the tendency to have few autobiographical memories from below the age of 2–4. This can be attributed to lack of [[memory rehearsal]] as young children do not engage in rehearsal of remembered information. There are two theoretical explanations for why this may occur; although they take different approaches, they are not [[mutually exclusive]] of each other.<ref name="PsychBook">{{cite book|last=Robinson-Riegler; Robinson-Riegler|first=Bridget; Gregory|title=Cognitive Psychology: Applying the Science of the Mind|year=2012|publisher=Pearson Education Inc. as Allyn & Bacon|___location=75 Arlington Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA|isbn=978-0-205-17674-8|pages=272–276; 295–296; 339–346|edition=Third}}</ref> The development of a cognitive self is also thought by some to have an effect on encoding and storing early memories.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MB_PBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=The+development+of+a+cognitive+self+is+also+thought+by+some+to+have+an+effect+on+encoding+and+storing+early+memories&source=bl&ots=sSw1xhUFaY&sig=tGznp7eKE58c--jLd1Mo0FF6lG0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit0Ij03u7LAhWCOSYKHfMUCdUQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=The%20development%20of%20a%20cognitive%20self%20is%20also%20thought%20by%20some%20to%20have%20an%20effect%20on%20encoding%20and%20storing%20early%20memories&f=false Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Cognitive Processes]{{full citation needed|date=August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loftus |first1=Elizabeth F. |title=Desperately seeking memories of the first few years of childhood: The reality of early memories |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: General |volume=122 |issue=2 |year=1993 |pages=274–7 |doi=10.1037/0096-3445.122.2.274 |pmid=8315402}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Usher |first1=JoNell A. |last2=Neisser |first2=Ulric |title=Childhood amnesia and the beginnings of memory for four early life events |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: General |volume=122 |issue=2 |year=1993 |pages=155–65 |doi=10.1037/0096-3445.122.2.155 |pmid=8315398}}</ref>