A Type of Motivated Forgetting in Which Anxiety-Arousing Memories Are

question 29

Multiple Choice

A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as

• A) retroactive interference.
• B) proactive interference.
• C) repression.
• D) priming.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetrical around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Exam Grades

The numerical or letter representations of performance or achievement levels attained by individuals or groups in academic examinations.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean of the data.

Normally Distributed

Describes a symmetrical bell-shaped distribution of data points, where most of the data points cluster around a central peak and the probabilities for values farther from the mean taper off symmetrically in both directions.