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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,the judge is asked to decide whether or not to accept the recovered memories of the victim as evidence.In which of the following scenarios should the judge feel most confident when accepting the victim's recovered memories as evidence


A) If the repressed memories were recovered spontaneously.
B) If the repressed memories were recovered with the help of a therapist.
C) If the victim is female and she claims to have experienced sexual abuse.
D) If the victim is male and he claims to have experienced physical abuse.

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