Motivated Forgetting of a Painful or Embarrassing Memory Because We

question 395

Multiple Choice

Motivated forgetting of a painful or embarrassing memory because we don't want to consciously remember the information is called:

• A) suppression.
• B) retrograde amnesia.
• C) repression.
• D) anterograde amnesia.

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Definitions:

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