With respect to the controversy regarding reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse, statements by major psychological and psychiatric associations suggest that:
a. the accumulated experiences of our lives are all preserved somewhere in our minds.
b. the more stressful an experience is, the more quickly it will be consciously forgotten.
c. repression is the most common mechanism underlying the failure to recall early childhood abuse.
d. professional therapists can reliably distinguish between their clients' true and false childhood memories.
e. adult memories of experiences happening before age 3 are unreliable.
Answer: E