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Unit 5 – Cognitive Psychology
Topic 5.5
Why might some psychologists argue that repression is not a plausible explanation for forgetting traumatic events?
Lack of empirical evidence supporting Freud's theory of repression
Repression is a conscious decision, not an unconscious process
Traumatic events are always remembered vividly
It's impossible to forget traumatic events because they're encoded in implicit memory
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AP Psychology - 5.5 Forgetting and Memory Distortion
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