Why we can't recollect what we were doing when we are a baby?

Question

Explain............

Answer 1

you're still developing your brain as a baby. the parts of brain that are used for memory have not fully developed yet.

Answer 2

My take on this, haven't read other answers so sorry if i repeat something.

The long term memory can hold a infinte ammount of details so it is possible for us to remember things from when we are a baby if they have entered the long term memory. But people cannot remember things because they do not have the right cues or access to the memories and so this is why.

However, if that was completely correct then we would likely remember some things, as we could come across correct cues. Yet most people do not remember anything. I think this is because most things from this age do not get transfered into the long term memory as we lack the ability to process information correctly. Everything is new at that age and we are still learning and so it is likely that although we learn, that we don't store alot of information in our memories.

I was told once however, that the reason we do not remember being born is not because we lack the ability, but because it is an extremely traumatising experience, so we repress it. Which i thought was super interesting!

Answer 3

Some people will have very specific memories of occasions that happened when they were less than one year old - for example, the gas cooker in the flat where I was a nine-month-old baby blew up and I've a very clear memory of the moment when I was under the kitchen table - having been hurled there - and my mother on the opposite side of the room in hysterics and I can even remember the colour of the walls and floor covering. I've another memory from about the same age of being held in my mother's arms as Dad drove us in his beloved Sunbeam Talbot from Leicester to Scarborough. But these memories - and everyone else's, as far as I understand - are episodic and have no context and no continuity.

I think the reason why we don't have continuous recall of incidents other than those impressed on our minds at the time is simply that as babes we lack the necessary information-processing capability: we can't talk to ourselves because we don't have language, we're only just beginning to associate cause and effect, our view of the world is entirely confined to our own experience - usually experienced through the senses - and we're not processing what happens to other people. It's not until a few years later that we begin to learn to separate ourselves from the rest of the world, realise that it doesn't revolve around us, etc. ... usually that's the time that parents call the Terrrible Twos, or Threes, or whatever, because the child is learning that it has its own identity and that its behaviour has an effect on others and vice-versa. I hope that helps a little, but if you want to follow it seriously the best psychologist to read (even if he's a little unfashionable nowadays) is Jean Piaget, who observed a great deal about the way infant minds grow and change.

Answer 4

The brain doesn't completely develop in the womb. Mostly due to lack of stimulation. Many chemical processes can't develop.

Answer 5

It takes a method for it and it is called Dianetics auditing. This enables you to go through
all barriers to reach moments of your past.
Buy and read the book Dianetics and you'll be amazed at how one can do it easily!

Ciao.......John-John.

Answer 6

I agree with all that's been said, but would like to add that I also think we are being spared the memory of birth. But that's just my opinion.

Answer 7

I Do..., not everything, but some incident when a few months old,. two years, 4years, the information is there we just need to make an effort to retrieve it

Answer 8

It's because u wudn't hav developed memory till u r two years.

Answer 9

brain act like animal at baby age

Answer 10

Those pathways in our brain have not been formed as yet. It takes repetition for these pathways to form.