If someone coughs while I'm telling you my phone number, you may hear the cough but a second later have no recollection of having heard it. In other words, you have a hint to remind you of the correct answer. List these three types of retrieval in order of difficulty, from easiest to hardest. When I see students at restaurants or in stores, I often have trouble remembering their names. In the classroom, I would be able to recall the student's name.
Infants can often drift off to sleep in spite of noise from vacuum cleaners, TVs and noisy siblings.
Carolyn Rovee-Collier demonstrated that infants have cued recall memory. Describe the study that she did and explain how that demonstrates the ability to recall. Infantile Amnesia 36. There are many hypotheses about what causes childhood amnesia. The upshot is that we don't have a clue what causes this.