Introduction
Repressed memories are memories that have been consciously blocked from conscious awareness due to the experience being too traumatic or painful.
False
Many self-help books portray repression as a common natural response to traumatic events.
True
The majority of scientific evidence supports the idea that traumatic memories can be repressed and later recovered with therapy.
False
Some experts argue that the concept of repressed memories is not only unsupported by scientific evidence, but it also goes against basic principles of ____________.
memory
Studies suggest that individuals who have experienced trauma are more likely to _________ details of the traumatic event than to repress them.
remember
The idea of repressed memories can be traced back to ________, who viewed repression as the unconscious motivated forgetting of unpleasant memories.
Freud
According to McNally's research, delayed recall of accurate events often results from _______ and remembering, rather than repression.
ordinary forgetting