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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.Patricia argues with the expert on the credibility of recovered repressed memories.What could be the counter-argument of the expert


A) Many repressed memories are recovered using hypnotism, which is a reliable method.
B) It is common for victims of sexual abuse to oscillate between denying and accepting the abuse having taken place.
C) Many repressed memories are recovered using dream analysis, which suggests memories of the abuse are intact, but not always accessible.
D) It is not uncommon for people to experience abuse when they are young and cannot comprehend what is happening, so they forget about it.

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