Jean has an intense fear of bears, including large teddy bears, and often discusses the topic. She thinks that a bear attacked her in the family’s living room when she was young, and that there was a party going on at the same time. Her mother recently found a video of her daughter’s fourth birthday party in which her uncle held his gift, a large teddy bear, in front of his face and growled
ferociously. This indicates that Jean’s memory of the bear attack is likely ____.
a. ?repression
b. ?confabulation
c. ?suppression
d. ?truth
ANSWER:
b
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