Several students are discussing the controversy about recovered memory and false memory. Which of the following students provides the best summary of the "recovered-memory perspective"?
a. Michele: "According to this perspective, all memories that adults recover about childhood sexual abuse are inaccurate, resulting from source-monitoring problems."
b. Magali: "This perspective says that there is no objective way to tell whether recovered memories are accurate, so that individuals are advised not to be concerned about them."
c. Greg: "According to this perspective, childhood sexual abuse is so traumatic that people may forget those memories for a while, but may retrieve them during adulthood."
d. Sol: "According to this perspective, a recovered memory is actually a constructed memory, in other words, people revise the past so that it is consistent with the present."
Ans: c
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