Question

215. Kimberly knows she did something embarrassing at her friend's birthday

party many years before, but she cannot remember what it was. Th is is an
example of:
(A) Repression
(B) Amnesia
(C) Forgetting curve
(D) Implicit memory
(E) Interference

Answer 1

Kimberly's inability to remember an embarrassing event at her friend's birthday party is an example of repression. Therefore, the correct option is A.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this case, Kimberly's inability to remember a embarrassing event from her friend's birthday party is an example of repression. Repression is a defense mechanism in which anxiety-provoking memories are blocked from conscious awareness. In Kimberly's case, the embarrassing memory is too overwhelming to deal with, so it gets repressed and removed from conscious awareness.