When Meridith Maran thought she had recovered vivid memories of being molested by her father, she withdrew herself and her children from any further contact with him. It was not until nine years later that she realized that her "memories" were not true and finally apologized to her father. Meridith Maran had experienced
a. encoding failure.
b. implicit memory reconstruction.
c. hypnotic age regression.
d. false memory syndrome.
D
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