To Help Resolve the Controversy Over Reports of Repressed Memories

question 19

Multiple Choice

To help resolve the controversy over reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse, the major psychological and psychiatric associations suggest that

• A) all our experiences are preserved somewhere in our minds.
• B) the more stressful an experience is, the more quickly it will be consciously forgotten.
• C) repression is the most common mechanism underlying the failure to recall early childhood abuse.
• D) adult memories of experiences happening before age 3 are unreliable.

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