If You Witness a Very Traumatic Accident and Experience a Surge

Multiple Choice

If you witness a very traumatic accident and experience a surge of stress hormones in your brain, these hormones will probably ____.

A) decrease your ability to retain information in sensory memory
B) block the formation of accurate memories for events occurring immediately before the accident
C) reduce your short-term memory capacity for a brief time after the accident has occurred
D) increase the likelihood that memory will contain elements that did not actually occur