A type of motivated forgetting in which painful, threatening, or embarrassing memories are held out of consciousness is known as

a. encoding failure.
b. consolidation.
c. retroactive interference.
d. repression.


D

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Which of the following is true of a genotype?

a. The phenotype controls the expression of the genotype. b. The expression of the genotype may be affected by environmental factors. c. The genotype and phenotype are largely unrelated. d. The genotype can be altered by experience.

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recommendations indicate that _______ techniques have detrimental effects

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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