Practice mode Psychology

Repression is an example of which of the following?

Correct answer C. Motivated forgetting

Explanation

In Freudian theory repression pushes anxiety-provoking memories out of conscious awareness, so the forgetting is driven by a motive rather than by decay or poor encoding.

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