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Title: Motivated forgetting vs suppression
Post by: jay426 on November 05, 2008, 01:19:07 pm

What's the difference between the two?
i know suppression is a type of motivated forgetting. But when given an example, and asked what type of forgetting it is, how do we know whether to put down suppression or motivated forgetting.

Title: Re: Motivated forgetting vs suppression
Post by: psychlaw on November 05, 2008, 01:22:28 pm

Last time there was a question like this (it involved repression), both repression and motivated forgetting were accept as answers

You should probably be specifying that it is suppression when the question states that the person is CONSCIOUSLY blocking out the memory. If it doesn't say its conscious then just put down motivated forgetting, and if it says UNCONSCIOUS then put down repression

Title: Re: Motivated forgetting vs suppression
Post by: Lulu on November 05, 2008, 03:53:03 pm

Yep, to be on the safe side, if they didn't say whether it was 'unconscious' or 'conscious' I would just put down motivated forgetting, and in brackets (suppression or repression).

Title: Re: Motivated forgetting vs suppression
Post by: amyminchin on November 05, 2008, 06:56:38 pm

If they mention Frued at all it's repression. As repression is a fruedian theory (FRued=Forgetting, Repressed. :))

Title: Re: Motivated forgetting vs suppression
Post by: arthurk on November 05, 2008, 07:47:21 pm

lol nice
Freud is all repression, i saw some question it said "attempts to forget" and it was repression i was like wtf doesnt attempt mean consciously block out cause im pretty sure u cant attempt to unconsciously do something