Fill in the Blanks Exercise 4Online version Fill in the blanks in the text on childhood amnesia with vocabulary from Exercise 2. Then, can you spot three synonyms for “remember” (two verbs, one phrase)? by Barbara Grayson 1 suppress reminisce nostalgia mind lasting unforgettable evocative blot remind recall out evoke recollections The first two or three years of your life are full of new and , you would think , 1 ) experiences . But the reality is that almost nothing most adults can 2 ) from those very early years , their earliest 3 ) being , on average , from the age of about three and a half . This phenomenon is often referred to as 'childhood amnesia' . Interestingly , young children are often able to bring to 4 ) certain events from their first two years of life but , for reasons which are not fully understood , they generally lose this ability as they get older . ( The artist Salvador Dali claimed he could recollect being in the womb , but there is no way to prove or disprove this ! ) Do those earliest memories disappear or does the mind 5 ) them for some reason ? Nobody is sure . As well as this tendency to lose or 6 ) memories from the first three years , most people have far fewer memories up to the age of eight than for other periods in their lives and they are often quite sketchy . Sometimes a picture or a piece of music can 7 ) you of something or someone from years ago , and smells can be particularly 8 ) . It is also possible for a sight , smell or sound to 9 ) a feeling ? for example , 10 ) ? rather than a specific memory . We still do not know exactly how the human mind stores information , but we do know that people who frequently 11 ) about childhood experiences are more likely to create 12 ) memories .
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