Motivated Forgetting Motivated Forgetting: People unknowingly revise their memories.
{"Image DocumentName": "Motivated ForgettingMotivated Forgetting: People unknowingly revise their memories.", "Image ImageDescription": "Repression: A defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. With his concept of repression, Sigmund Freud proposed that our memories are self-censoring. To. protect our self-concepts and to minimize anxiety, we may block from consciousness painful. memories and unacceptable impulses. In Freud\u2019s view, this motivated forgetting submerges memories. but leaves them available for later retrieval under the right conditions. Increasing numbers of. memory researchers think repression rarely, if ever, occurs. More typically, we have trouble forgetting. traumatic experiences. Culver Pictures. Sigmund Freud.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}