You Have Forgotten About Some Incident That Occurred Several Years

question 106

Multiple Choice

You have forgotten about some incident that occurred several years ago. It was very troubling to you. Rather than having amnesia, your psychoanalyst suggests that this is really a case of

• A) the action of false retrieval cues
• B) dementia
• C) repression
• D) interference
• E) memory trace decay

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