The term childhood amnesia was first coined by the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. Freud pointed out that children after a certain age cannot remember important childhood memories. What started off as anecdotal evidence has been proved by over a century of empirical studies (Nelson, 1995) Kazdin (2000) defined infantile amnesia as “the inability of human adults to retrieve genuine memories for events that occurred before about three years of age”. Significant amount of research has been conducted on this case of childhood amnesia and what causes it. The paradox of childhood amnesia lies in the fact that while young Continue reading...