A type of motivated forgetting in which painful, threatening, or embarrassing memories are held out of consciousness is known as
A)encoding failure.
B)consolidation.
C)retroactive interference.
D)repression.

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Repression is a defense mechanism proposed by Freud, where the mind pushes distressing memories out of conscious awareness, thus preventing painful, threatening, or embarrassing memories from being accessed.

A Type of Motivated Forgetting in Which Painful, Threatening, or Embarrassing