If you witness a very traumatic accident and experience a surge of stress hormones in your brain, these hormones will probably ____
a. ?decrease your ability to retain information in sensory memory
b. ?block the formation of accurate memories for events occurring immediately before the accident
c. ?reduce your short-term memory capacity for a brief time after the accident has occurred
d. ?increase the likelihood that memory will contain elements that did not actually occur
ANSWER:
b
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