Clara is in a sad mood. She is asked to recall an event in her past that was relatively neutral—her performance in a junior high history class in which she earned a B—and she remembers the event as being a sadder experience than it probably was. The influence of Clara's current mood on her memory illustrates the memory sin of:

A) transience.
B) bias.
C) suggestibility.
D) misattribution.


B) bias.

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