Regarding sleep, memory, and the interference theory of forgetting, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Sleeping after one studies can reduce the forgetting caused by interference.
b. REM sleep and dreaming appear to help us form certain types of memories.
c. Forgetting due to interference appears to apply only to sensory memory and not to short-term and long-term memory.
d. It is not completely clear if new memories alter existing memory traces or if they make it harder to retrieve earlier memories.
C
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