In the trace-impairment view of the misinformation effect,

a. the misinformation creates a second memory and participants have source-monitoring difficulties.
b. the misinformation is detected and removed by retrieval active suppression.
c. fuzzy-trace models provide a means for improving memory performance.
d. the misinformation replaces the memory for the original event.


Ans: d

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