It's Thanksgiving and your whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of __________.

A. constructive processing
B. hindsight bias
C. adaptation of memory traces
D. flashbulb integration


Answer: A

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