Which of the following suggests that forgetting occurs due to not wanting to remember unpleasant information?
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Answer : Motivated Forgetting.
Full Question with options :-
Which of the following suggests that forgetting occurs due to not wanting to remember unpleasant information?
a. decay memory
b. retrieval failure
c. ineffective encoding
d. motivated forgetting
Answer : Motivated Forgetting.
Motivated Forgetting suggests that forgetting occurs due to not wanting to remember unpleasant information.
Extra Information :-
- The Motivated Forgetting theory was discovered by Sigmund Freud
- Motivated forgetting is a type of psychological behaviour.
- It is a psychological condition in which people may want to forget their bad or unwanted memories.
Motivated forgetting is two types -
(1) Repression (2) supression .
- (1) Repression, which means people forget their unwanted memories unconsciously.
- (2) Supression, which means people forget their unwanted memories consciously.
- In Motivated Forgetting, people desire to forget unwanted memories which are mostly disturbing or upsetting them .
Answer:
Forgetting comes as a result of the very many aspects of life.
For instance people may forget due to the following factors
There similarity of the information.
The time difference between the time of learning and that of the application of what have been learnt
Explanation:
- Unpleasant information is normally force or rather put back to the unconscious layer as put forward by Freudian .
- The type of forgetting is though not permanent.
- An individual will normally forget the pleasant experience one has faced by putting them to the unconscious layer of the mind.
- It is normally these unpleasant information that one will in their later life would wish to exorcise them .
- When refused to be exorcise, they normally gives disorders.