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Patricia Is a Defense Attorney

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Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of.
-During a trial,Patricia cross-examines an expert on repressed memories.As a skeptic of recovered memories,which of the following arguments could Patricia use


A) People who claim they have repressed memories willingly lie about them.
B) People who claim they have repressed memories often suffer from mental illness.
C) Repressed memories are often from events that occur before the age of three, which is too young to remember many details.
D) Repressed memories are often recovered spontaneously while the person is sleeping, and could potentially just be a nightmare.

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