Contents:
- Medical Video: Why Can't We Remember Being Babies?
- This is infantile amnesia or childhood amnesia
- What causes memory loss during this baby?
- Memory in toddlers is more remembered
Medical Video: Why Can't We Remember Being Babies?
Can you tell one memory that happened in your life when bedwetting in kindergarten? Do you remember one memory earlier than that? For example, do you remember your first meal? Maybe the taste of baby porridge you eat when you are only 6 months old. Or do you remember how the people around you cried sadly after waiting for your nine-month birth in the womb?
This is infantile amnesia or childhood amnesia
Yes, you are not the only person who can't remember the memories that happened when you were a baby. The average adult doesn't remember much from the beginning of his life. Even if yes, usually the memories come from the age of 2 or 3 years, and those memories are not too detailed (Howe, Courage, & Rooksby, 2009; Newcombe, 2007). This phenomenon that occurs in life is called infantile amnesia or childhood amnesia.
What causes memory loss during this baby?
There is one theory that states that the cause of amnesia is the undeveloped area of the brain called prefrontal lobes (Boyer & Diamond, 1992). Prefrontal lobes this is what keeps memories of events that have happened in human life. However, because it has not developed perfectly, the capacity to remember cannot be done perfectly.
In addition, there are also theories that can make it in shock people who are not from a psychology background; Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory. Before the existence of objective research, Sigmund Freud (1899) was the first person to be aware of it childhood amnesia this. In his theory, Freud stated that childhood amnesia occurs because children feel traumatic, so try to forget, because they hold their sexual appetite. Freud stated that children aged 1.5 to 3 years, children focus on the pleasure that is on their anus. Psychosexual theory from Freud himself states that during his lifetime, humans will focus on sexual satisfaction.
Back in modern times, there was research conducted by Paul Frankland, Sheena Josselyn, and colleagues (2012) at a children's hospital in Toronto. This study has the notion that amnesia of childhood memories occurs because of very rapid growth in the area of the brain named hippocampus in childhood. Growth hippocampus this fast causes the old memory to "rot" and eventually be forgotten. Hippocampus itself is an area in the brain that regulates autobiographical memory of one's life.
Memory in toddlers is more remembered
In smaller children (ages 5-6 years), they tend to remember more about what happens to their toddlers, about 63% -72% of events have occurred. However, in children who tend to be larger (ages 8-9 years), they do not remember much of the events that occurred in their toddlers, about 35% of the total events. Even so, 8-9 year olds can describe the incident far more in detail than children aged 5-6 years.
Dr. Patricia Bauer, a psychologist at Emory University, who examined it stated that in childhood, we tend to forget a lot of detail compared to adulthood because children cannot process pieces of memories into more complicated forms.
So, what actually causes us to become amnesia? Nevertheless, the theory concerning childhood amnesia this still holds many mysteries for the researchers themselves. There is no definitive explanation of the main reason; because developments that occur in humans are the result of interactions of various complex things. Most importantly, you know if this doesn't happen only to you. So it's a little easier, right?
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