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Motivated Forgetting
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Motivated Forgetting:
People unknowingly
revise their memories.
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Repression:
Defense
mechanism that banishes
anxiety-arousing
thoughts, feelings, and
memories from
consciousness.
Sigmund Freud
Culver Pictures
OBJECTIVE 28-5
| Summarize Freud's concept of repression, and state whether this view is reflected in current memory research.
