Question

Mrs. Landry cannot consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would cause her too much anxiety. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates

:a. Source amnesia

b. Repression

c. Automatic processing

d. Proactive interference

56. At a block party, Lousie meets nine new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and the last two neighbors she met. her experience illustrates

a. Source amnesia

b. The serial position effect

c. The next-in-line effect

d. The spacing effect

Answer 1

The answer is b. Repression.

Repression is a part of Freud's Psychonalytic theory, In this some distressing thoughts, memories and feelings are unconsciously pushed into the unconscious mind and the individual becomes unaware of their existence.

While in source amnesia an individual is not able to remember the source of previously aquired information, although the person still remembers the fact or information but don't remember where they've learned it from.

Automatic processing is any information that has been processed without a conscious intention or control.

And Proactive Interference is when a previously learned information interferes with the new learning. for example when you try to remember your friend's new phone number but the previosly learned one keeps interfering.