Simcock and Hayne (2002) Presented Two-, Three-, and Four-Year-Old Children

Multiple Choice

Simcock and Hayne (2002) presented two-, three-, and four-year-old children with a demonstration of their "incredible shrinking machine." When the children were brought back one year later, they found that:

A) children only recalled items if the words for those items were in the vocabulary at the time of presentation.
B) only the oldest children could remember any of the objects seen.
C) because of the onset of childhood amnesia, only the four-year-olds showed deficits in memory.
D) recall was predicted by the level of trauma in each child's life.