"My First Memory? I Can Remember When I Was Almost

question 223

Multiple Choice

"My first memory? I can remember when I was almost three years old and going to my mom's hospital room just after my little brother was born. My aunt handed me my little brother all wrapped in a blanket and I remember just looking at him for the longest time, and thinking how he was so little." According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box in your text, memories like this one that focus on a specific event and the person's feelings about the event were most likely to be:

• A) a false memory.
• B) reported by European American college students.
• C) the result of imagination inflation.
• D) reported by Chinese and Taiwanese college students.

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Definitions:

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