What psychological factors contribute to parents forgetting children in cars?

The death of an infant in Kentucky is highlighting the specific psychological factors that lead parents and caregivers to forget children inside vehicles. This tragic incident has drawn significant attention to the mental processes and cognitive lapses that contribute to such occurrences. Experts are examining how these psychological triggers operate to better understand why caregivers may overlook a child in a car, aiming to identify the underlying causes of these fatal mistakes in various caregiving scenarios.