"My first memory? I can remember when I was almost three years old and going to my mom's hospital room just after my little brother was born. My aunt handed me my little brother all wrapped in a blanket and I remember just looking at him for the longest time, and thinking how he was so little." According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box, memories like this one that focus on a specific event and the person's feelings about the event were most likely to be:
A)a false memory.
B)reported by European American college students.
C)the result of imagination inflation.
D)reported by Chinese and Taiwanese college students.

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This type of memory, focusing on a specific event and the individual's feelings about it, aligns with research findings that such autobiographical memories are more commonly reported by European American college students compared to their Chinese and Taiwanese counterparts. This difference is often attributed to cultural variations in self-concept and the value placed on individual experiences.

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