Course Textbook:

Goldstein, B. E. (2015). Cognitive psychology, connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th. ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Question:

What is the earliest event you can remember? How old were you at the time of the event? Describe the level of detail in the early memory and your certainty of the details compared to the same for an event that happened within the past 3 years. What would your course textbook say about likely causes for the differences?

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Goldstein, B. E. (2015). Cognitive psychology, connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th. ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

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