Compared with traditional views of memory acquisition, storage, and recall, contemporary views suggest
A)that acquisition is more difficult, recall is easier.
B)that items in long-term storage are more permanent than previously thought.
C)that items in long-term storage can be made more malleable than previously thought.
D)that most of what we consider memory is actually classical or instrumental conditioning.

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Contemporary views suggest that items in long-term storage can be made more malleable than previously thought through processes such as reconsolidation, which allows for the modification of existing memories. This is a departure from the traditional view that long-term memories were relatively fixed and unchangeable.

Compared with Traditional Views of Memory Acquisition, Storage, and Recall