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childhood amnesia

the commonly experienced inability to recall events from early childhood (see early memory). Childhood amnesia has been attributed to the facts that (a) cognitive abilities necessary for encoding events for the long term have not yet been fully developed and (b) parts of the brain responsible for remembering personal events have not yet matured. Also called infantile amnesia.

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personal probability

personal probability

see subjective probability.