Will Served Two Tours in Afghanistan,and on the Last One,he

question 371

Multiple Choice

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

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

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Definitions:

Evaluativist Theory

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