In directed forgetting, participants are asked to forget certain items.This results in:
A)ironically, enhanced memory for those items.
B)participants cannot inhibit the to-be-forgotten items, resulting in greater recall of those items.
C)participants do not follow the directions and forget all of the items.
D)participants inhibit the to-be-forgotten items, resulting in less recall of those items.

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In directed forgetting, participants are specifically asked to forget certain items. The common finding is that participants are then better at forgetting those items than they are at remembering them. This suggests that participants are able to inhibit the to-be-forgotten items, resulting in less recall of those items. Therefore, the correct answer is D.

In Directed Forgetting, Participants Are Asked to Forget Certain Items