What Is the "Lost-In-The-Mall" Technique

question 191

Multiple Choice

What is the "lost-in-the-mall" technique?

• A) a suggestive technique that has been shown to be effective in helping people recover repressed memories of being abused or abandoned as children
• B) a way of testing people's spatial memory, in which participants are led through an unfamiliar shopping mall and then they are timed as they try to locate particular stores
• C) a mnemonic technique, which involves remembering a list of unrelated items by mentally imagining them at different store locations at a familiar shopping mall
• D) using family members of a study participant to help induce a false memory for an event that never occurred, such as being lost in a shopping mall as a child

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