One possible explanation for the reminiscence bump — that events occurring during the formation of a personal identity during adolescence are especially well-remembered — provides an analog to one of the accounts for this other memory phenomenon:
a) flashbulb memories
b) the offset of childhood amnesia
c) dissociations between implicit and explicit memory
d) the distinction between autobiographical memories and facts
Answer: b
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