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

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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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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Perspective

A theoretical framework in psychology that emphasizes the role of unconscious processes and childhood experiences in shaping behavior and personality.

Aggression

Behaviors or actions carried out with the intent to harm someone either physically or psychologically, often manifested as a response to frustration or threat.

Unconscious

A part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory describing a girl's sense of competition with her mother for the affection and attention of her father.