Clancy and colleagues (2000) recruited women who had never experienced child abuse,women who had experienced child abuse and remembered it,women who believed they had experienced child abuse but had no memory,and women who had recovered previously repressed memories of abuse and had them complete the Roediger-McDermott paradigm to test for false word recall.They found that women who ______ had the highest rate of false recall in the task.

A) had recovered previously repressed memories of abuse
B) believed they had experienced abuse but had no memory of it
C) had experienced abuse and could recall memories of it
D) had never experienced abuse

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Final Answer : A, Explanation :  Women who had recovered previously repressed memories of abuse showed the highest rate of false recall in the Roediger-McDermott paradigm according to the study by Clancy and colleagues (2000).

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