What is the "lost-in-the-mall" technique?
a. a suggestive technique that has been shown to be effective in helping people recover repressed memories of being abused or abandoned as children
b. a way of testing people's spatial memory, in which participants are led through an unfamiliar shopping mall and then they are timed as they try to locate particular stores
c. a mnemonic technique, which involves remembering a list of unrelated items by mentally imagining them at different store locations at a familiar shopping mall
d. using family members of a study participant to help induce a false memory for an event that never occurred, such as being lost in a shopping mall as a child
Ans: d. using family members of a study participant to help induce a false memory for an event that never occurred, such as being lost in a shopping mall as a child
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