People who are extremely sensitive to emotional events tend to use _____ to protect themselves from threatening thoughts.
A)encoding failure
B)repression
C)proactive interference
D)retroactive interference

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Repression involves unconsciously blocking out threatening or anxiety-provoking thoughts, emotions, or memories as a defense mechanism. This would be an effective coping mechanism for someone who is highly sensitive to emotional events and needs to protect themselves from overwhelming emotions. Encoding failure refers to the failure to create a memory trace in the first place and is unrelated to emotional coping mechanisms. Proactive interference and retroactive interference both refer to interference between memories and are also unrelated to emotional coping mechanisms.

People Who Are Extremely Sensitive to Emotional Events Tend to Use