According to Sigmund Freud, the defense mechanism that is used when threatening thoughts and memories are pushed out of conscious awareness is:
A)retroactive interference
B)retrograde amnesia
C)repression
D)Korsakoff's Syndrome

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According to Freud, repression is a defense mechanism that pushes threatening thoughts and memories out of conscious awareness and into the unconscious mind. Retroactive interference refers to difficulty in learning new information due to interference from previously learned information, retrograde amnesia is a loss of memory for events that occurred before the onset of amnesia, and Korsakoff's Syndrome is a neurological disorder caused by thiamine deficiency that results in memory impairment and other cognitive deficits.

According to Sigmund Freud, the Defense Mechanism That Is Used