A type of motivated forgetting where 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 involves motivated forgetting where painful, threatening, or embarrassing memories are held out of consciousness. Encoding failure refers to the failure to process information into memory, consolidation refers to the process of strengthening memories, and retroactive interference refers to new memories interfering with the recall of old memories.

A Type of Motivated Forgetting Where Painful, Threatening, or Embarrassing