Why don't we remember our childhood?
Doesn't it hurt to think, “Oh, if only I could remember the naughty and sweet memories of my childhood!” The first walk, the first spoken word is nothing we can’t remember. Many times when we hear about our childhood in the mouths of the people around us, we mistakenly think of them as our memories.
Even if you don't remember very important or happy memories of your childhood, you do remember the lines of a story heard or read in adolescence. Why is that?
Psychologists have been studying the causes of childhood memory loss for more than a century. About 100 years ago, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, coined the term 'infantile amnesia', in Bengali it is called 'infantile amnesia', which is an innate process of forgetting 2-4 years of experience and not fully remembering before 6 years of age.
*As is the case with childhood memory
Children cannot create lasting memories, but their inherent and expressive memory is formed.
Implicit Memory: Systematic memory that remembers and can do something without thinking.
Explicit Memory: When you can consciously remember the events that happened to you.
Children can memorize information in those situations, such as 6-month-olds can remember what to do in 24 hours, 9-month-olds can remember one month's activities and 20-month-olds can remember up to a whole year what they were taught. It can also be seen that the events that are more emotional to children, those memories they can remember three times more.
Many times the matter of retaining memories also depends on our culture. Many people remember many experiences of their childhood, while many people do not remember any incident of 6-7 years ago. Again our culture, surroundings and social position play an important role in forming and retaining these memories.