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प्रश्न
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Motivated forgetting
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People may consciously or unconsciously forget unwanted memories. The two levels of motivated forgetting are repression and thought suppression.
- Repression - According to Sigmund Freud, we subconsciously push unwanted or painful memories into the unconscious for e.g., a boy who was kidnapped as an infant, may forget it. but have difficulty in trusting others throughout life.
- Thought suppression - It is a conscious effort to forget about painful experiences of life for e.g., a person who was falsely implicated in a criminal case may refuse to talk about it.
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Causes of Forgetting
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Very often forgetting is due to unconscious processes like repression.
What is motivated forgetting?
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Causes of forgetting
Explain the theories of forgetting in detail.
