What you can remember from age 3 may help improve aspects of your life far into adulthood. Children who have the ability to reca

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问题     What you can remember from age 3 may help improve aspects of your life far into adulthood. Children who have the ability to recall and make sense of memories from daily life—the first day of preschool, the time the cat died—can use them to better develop a sense of identity, form relationships and make sound choices in adolescence and adulthood, new research shows.
    While the lives of many youngsters today are heavily documented in photos and video on social media and stored in families’ digital archives, studies suggest photos and videos have little impact. Parents play a bigger role in helping determine not just how many early memories children can recall, but how children interpret and learn from the events of their earliest experiences.
    "Our personal memories define who we are. They bond us together," says Robyn Fivush, a psychology professor at Emory University in Atlanta and an author of dozens of studies on the topic. Children whose parents encourage recalling and storytelling about daily events show better coping and problem-solving skills by their preteens, and fewer symptoms of depression, research shows.
    Some memories help build a sense of self-continuity, or personal identity, says a 2011 study. People recall these memories when they "want to feel that I am the same person that I was before", or "when I want to understand how I have changed from who I was before". A hurricane survivor, for example, might recall the memory as proof that she can survive tough experiences and grow stronger as a result.
    Other memories serve a directive function, and guide behavior. People recall these when making decisions or to avoid repeating past mistakes. A person whose dog was killed by a car is likely to call on that memory when deciding to keep pets on a leash.
    A third type, social-bonding memories, involve relationships with others. People recall these when they want to strengthen relationships or form new ties, the study says. A college student who participated in a different study cited bedtime-reading sessions with his father, who read him the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, as a motivator to build and maintain strong family ties in his adult life.
    The ability to draw on all three types of memories predicts higher psychological well-being, a greater sense of purpose and more positive relationships, according to a study of 103 college students published last year in the journal Memory.
From Paragraph 2, we get to know that photos and videos______.

选项 A、record most of parents’ early lives
B、can help children recall their early memories easily
C、usually take the place of children’ s early memories
D、can’ t play an important role as early memories do

答案D

解析 根据题干关键词定位到第二段。根据While the lives of many youngsters todayare heavily documented in photos and video…studies suggest photos and videos have little impact可知,照片和视频对孩子后天的发展影响很小,故D项“不能起到像儿时记忆一样的作用”为正确答案。A项偏离了照片和视频涉及的对象。B项与Parents play a bigger role inhelping determine not just how many early memories children can recall…相矛盾。C项与photos and videos have little impact相矛盾。
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