Question

Memory experts who express skepticism regarding reports of repressed and recovered memories are most likely to emphasize that: people rarely recall memories of long-forgotten events. most extremely traumatic life experiences are never encoded into long-term memory. only those memories that are recovered with the help of a professional psychotherapist are likely to be reliable. extremely stressful life experiences are especially likely to be well remembered.

Answer 1

Memory experts who express skepticism regarding reports of repressed and recovered memories are most likely to emphasize that: most extremely traumatic life experiences are never encoded into long-term memory. However, the human capacity for storing long-term memories is essentially unlimited.

Answer 2

Answer:

Option D. Memory experts who express skepticism regarding reports of repressed and recovered memories are most likely to emphasize that extremely stressful life experiences are especially likely to be well remembered.

Explanation:

The term repressed memories refers to the group of memories for traumatic events that may have been blocked from the conscious recall of the individual who has suffered them. Although the term became very popular thanks to Freud, several research psychologists and memory experts show skepticism regarding the term and the concept of "recovered memories". These experts have stated that using psychotherapy as a tool to recover lost memories can be, in fact, creating false ones, and that it is very hard to discern between a "recovered memory" from a false memory. They also state that extremely stressful life experiences are especially likely to be well remembered and stored as long-term memories, which would go against the whole concept of "repressed memories".