Philippe Has Just Completed Medical School

question 24

Multiple Choice

Philippe has just completed medical school. In reflecting on his years of formal education, he is able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher who flunked him. According to Freud, his forgetting illustrates

• A) repression.
• B) proactive interference.
• C) retroactive interference.
• D) the spacing effect.

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