Which of the Following Topics Is Most Controversial Among Current

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the following topics is most controversial among current psychologists? That is, which of them is believed by some and strongly disbelieved by others?

• A) The tendency for proactive interference to enhance forgetting.
• B) The ability of therapy patients to accurately recover repressed memories of early sexual abuse.
• C) Existence of different kinds of memory--e.g., procedural vs. declarative, explicit vs. implicit.
• D) The possibility of being influenced in behavior by implicit memories, even though one does not recall them consciously.

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