Three-year-olds who experienced a fire evacuation caused by a burning popcorn maker were unable to remember the cause of this vivid event when they were 10-year-olds. This best illustrates

a. habituation.

b. assimilation.

c. infantile amnesia.

d. crystallized intelligence.

e. fluid intelligence.

C. Infantile Amnesia.

Explanation:

As Three-year-old kid who has experienced a fire evacuation caused by a burning popcorn maker and he was unable to remember the cause of this vivid event when he was 10-year-old kid. This best illustrates infantile amnesia. Infantile amnesia is also known as childhood amnesia were adults find themselves unable in retrieving episodic memories, situations and events which has occurred before 2 to 4 years of time and particular before the age of 10, they can't retrieve most of the things from their memory. It doesn't happen in everybody and it is mostly associated with the non-functionality of the brain.