Roseanne Claims That She Can Remember Instances of Childhood Sexual

question 194

Multiple Choice

Roseanne claims that she can remember instances of childhood sexual abuse that started at 6 months of age.Most psychologists are likely to be skeptical of this and other such claims because

• A)decay leads to almost immediate forgetting of newly learned information.
• B)infantile amnesia makes it unlikely that these are true memories from that age.
• C)proponents of the realism of such claims are charging less to treat the victims of this abuse than those who are dubious of the claims.
• D)repression inhibits the conscious recognition of traumatic events such as childhood sexual abuse.

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Maslow's Hierarchy

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