Which is the BEST example of a repressed memory?

a. Every time you smell cookies baking, you think of your grandmother.
b. Loud noises make you jump.
c. The divorce of your parents is too sad to think about, so you try to ignore that it ever happened.
d. The movie on TV reminds you of a film you watched back in preschool.

C. Repressed memories are often too painful to deal with, so we push them into our subconscious mind either deliberately or unconsciously.

Psychology

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A) the gap between middle-SES and low-SES children—about 9 points—accounts for some of the ethnic differences in IQ, but not all. B) each intelligence has a unique biological basis, a distinct course of development, and different expert, or "end-state," performances. C) flexible attention, memory, and reasoning strategies are as important as efficient thinking in predicting IQ. D) intelligence tests can easily underestimate, and even overlook, the intellectual strengths of some children, especially ethnic minorities.

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