James worked for three years for a company in which the supervisors constantly criticized the employees, promoted their friends, and unfairly set work schedules.It has now been seven years since James worked for this company, and he cannot seem to remember the names of the people he worked with or even the details of the unfair treatment he received.James' forgetting is most likely due to
A) memory decay.
B) disuse.
C) redintegration.
D) repression.

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James' inability to remember the names of his former colleagues and the details of his unfair treatment suggest the possibility of repression - a defence mechanism that blocks traumatic or unpleasant memories from conscious awareness. In this case, the negative experiences and emotions associated with James' former workplace may have been repressed in his subconscious, preventing him from recalling the specific details.

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