A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as
A) retroactive interference.
B) proactive interference.
C) repression.
D) déjà vu.

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Repression is a type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness. Retroactive interference occurs when new information interferes with the ability to remember old information, and proactive interference is the opposite, when previously learned information interferes with the ability to remember new information. Déjà vu is the feeling of familiarity in a new situation, and is not related to motivated forgetting or repression.

A Type of Motivated Forgetting in Which Anxiety-Arousing Memories Are