Psychologists Have Offered Different Types of Explanations for the Potential

Multiple Choice

Psychologists have offered different types of explanations for the potential differences between memory for traumatic events and memory for more mundane events. Which type of explanation is most amenable to scientific assessment?

A) Psychodynamic explanations based on repression and dissociation are less amenable to scientific investigation than are biological explanations.
B) Psychodynamic explanations based on repression and dissociation are more amenable to scientific investigation than are biological explanations.
C) Neither psychodynamic nor biological explanations are well-suited to scientific testing.
D) Both psychodynamic and biological explanations are well-suited to scientific testing.