According to the discussion of the "false memory controversy,"

a. we have extensive evidence that people repress painful memories and later recover them.
b. in some cases, therapists have suggested that unpleasant events may have occurred during childhood, and people may mistakenly believe that they actually occurred.
c. researchers have constructed a checklist to determine whether an individual is telling the truth about an early life event; this checklist has high validity.
d. the research shows that people seldom make errors; when they say they experienced an event, it is almost certain that they did so.


Ans: b

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