Roseanne claims that she can remember a horrible accident that happened when she was six months old. Why are most psychologists likely to be skeptical of this and other such claims?
A) Because repression inhibits the conscious recognition of traumatic events.
B) Because childhood memories tend to be uniformly positive
C) Because infantile amnesia makes it unlikely that these are true memories from that age
D) Because children cannot distinguish between reality and dreams
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