Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1103 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Repression
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The idea
Repression is the exclusion of threatening thoughts or memories from conscious awareness.
In practice
A person reports no memory of a distressing childhood period that others recall clearly.
Where people slip
Recovered-memory claims based on repression have produced documented false memories. Courts treat them with caution.
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