Will Served Two Tours in Iraq, and on the Last

question 23

Multiple Choice

Will served two tours in Iraq, and on the last one, he saw a friend get killed by a roadside bomb. Back in the US, a therapist asked about his friend and Will had difficulty recalling details about his friend's life. Which type of motivated forgetting may Will be experiencing?

• A) encoding
• B) repression
• C) retrieval
• D) interference
• E) exsanguination

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