TPO6-3 Infantile Amnesia
1) The sheer passage of time does not account for it; adults have excellent recognitionof pictures of people who attended high school with them 35 years earlier.
2) Another seemingly plausible explanation—that infants do not form enduring memories at this point in development—also is incorrect.(注意本句主干。)
3) Nor does the hypothesis that infantile amnesia reflects repression—or holding back—of sexually charged episodes explain the phenomenon. While such repression may occur, people cannot remember ordinary events from the infant and toddler periods either.(while此处表转折。转折和否定，又一次构成了出题点。)
4) Three other explanations seem more promising. (典型的撑起篇章结构的句子，短小却强大，承上又启下。)
5) Demonstrations of infants’ and toddlers' long-term memory have involved their repeating motor activities that they had seen or done earlier, such as reaching in the dark for objects, putting a bottle in a doll’s mouth, or pulling apart two pieces of a toy.(推断题定位句。)
6) Through hearing stories with a clear beginning, middle, and ending children may learn to extract the gist of eventsin ways that they will be able to describe many years later. (找到这个细节题定位句不难，但真正理解它的深层内涵很重要，这样才能识别出答案中幅度较大的同义改写。)
7) A third likely explanation for infantile amnesia involves incompatibilities between the ways in which infants encodeinformation and the ways in which older children and adults retrieve it.
8) Whether people can remember an event depends critically on the fit between the way in which they earlier encoded the information and the way in which they later attempt to retrieve it.
This view is supported by a variety offactors that can create mismatches between very young children's encoding and older children's and adults' retrieval efforts.
(作者在一遍又一遍地重复这个view, 我们有什么理由识别不出这个view是什么view?至少肯定可以看出是在encode和retrieve之间发生了点什么。)
9) General knowledge of categories of events such as a birthday party or a visit to the doctor's office helps older individuals encode their experiences, but again, infants and toddlers are unlikely to encode many experiences within such knowledge structures.(和第6个句子有异曲同工之妙。一个是逻辑顺序，一个是事件分类，均可辅助记忆。)
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