One of the criticisms against the research on motivated forgetting is that
A) stressful events can cause forgetting by biological means.
B) case studies of motivated forgetting involved ordinary life events.
C) adults frequently fail to report traumatic childhood experiences.
D) the concept contradicts well-established principles of Freudian psychoanalysis.

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Stressful events can indeed cause forgetting through biological mechanisms, such as the release of stress hormones that affect areas of the brain involved in memory. This criticism points out that not all forgetting that appears to be motivated (i.e., purposeful or psychological) is actually due to psychological reasons; some of it can be explained by biological responses to stress.

One of the Criticisms Against the Research on Motivated Forgetting