Editing Repressed memory (section)

===Mechanisms===
Those who argue in favor of the validity of the phenomenon of repressed memory have identified three mechanisms of normal memory that may explain how memory repression may occur: retrieval inhibition, motivated forgetting, and state-dependent remembering.<ref name="Otgaar" />

====Retrieval inhibition====
[[Retrieval-induced forgetting|Retrieval inhibition]] refers to a memory phenomenon where remembering some information causes forgetting of other information.<ref name="Anderson1">{{cite journal | vauthors = Anderson MC, Bjork RA, Bjork EL | year = 1994 | title = Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory | journal = Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | volume = 20 | issue = 5| pages = 1063–1087 | doi=10.1037/0278-7393.20.5.1063| pmid = 7931095 |citeseerx=10.1.1.119.3933 }}</ref> Anderson and Green have argued that for a linkage between this phenomenon and memory repression; according to this view, the simple decision to not think about a traumatic event, coupled with active remembering of other related experiences (or less traumatic elements of the traumatic experience) may make memories for the traumatic experience itself less accessible to conscious awareness.<ref name="Anderson2">{{cite journal | vauthors = Anderson MC, Green C | title = Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control | journal = Nature | volume = 410 | issue = 6826 | pages = 366–9 | date = March 2001 | pmid = 11268212 | doi = 10.1038/35066572 | bibcode = 2001Natur.410..366A | s2cid = 4403569 }}</ref> However, two problems with this viewpoint have been raised: (1) the evidence for the basic phenomenon itself has not consistently replicated, and (2) the phenomenon does not meet all criteria that must be met to support memory repression theory, particularly the lack of evidence that this form of forgetting is particularly likely to occur in the case of traumatic experiences.<ref name="Otgaar" />

====Motivated forgetting====
The [[motivated forgetting]] phenomenon, which is also sometimes referred to as intentional or directed forgetting, refers to forgetting which is initiated by a conscious goal to forget particular information.<ref name = "Bad">Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck & Michael C. Anderson., 2009. Memory. Motivated Forgetting (pp. 217-244). New York: Psychology Press</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1037/0033-2909.116.2.274 | vauthors = Johnson HM | year = 1994 | title = Processes of successful intentional forgetting | journal = Psychological Bulletin | volume = 116 | issue = 2| pages = 274–292 }}</ref> In the classic intentional forgetting paradigm, participants are shown a list of words, but are instructed to remember certain words while forgetting others. Later, when tested on their memory for all of the words, recall and recognition is typically worse for the deliberately forgotten words.<ref name = "MacLeod">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1037/0278-7393.1.3.271 | vauthors = MacLeod CM | year = 1975 | title = Long-term recognition and recall following directed forgetting | journal = Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory | volume = 1 | issue = 3| pages = 271–279 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.383.9175 | s2cid = 8446979 }}</ref> A problem for viewing motivated forgetting as a mechanism of memory repression is that there is no evidence that the intentionally forgotten information becomes, first, inaccessible and then, later, retrievable (as required by memory repression theory).<ref name="Otgaar" />

====State-dependent remembering====
The term [[State-dependent memory|state-dependent remembering]] refers to the evidence that memory retrieval is most efficient when an individual is in the same state of consciousness as they were when the memory was formed.<ref name="girden">{{cite journal | vauthors = Girden E, Culler E | title = Conditioned responses in curarized striate muscle in dogs. | journal = Journal of Comparative Psychology | date = April 1937 | volume = 23 | issue = 2 | pages = 261–274 | doi = 10.1037/h0058634 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Russell | first = Dewey | name-list-style = vanc | url = http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/state-dependent_memory.html | title = State-Dependent Memory | work = Psych Web | date = 2007 }}</ref> Based upon her research with rats, Radulovic has argued that memories for highly stressful traumatic experiences may be stored in different neural networks than is the case with memories for non-stressful experiences, and that memories for the stressful experiences may then be inaccessible until the organism's brain is in a neurological state similar to the one that occurred when the stressful experience first occurred.<ref name="Radulovic">{{cite journal | vauthors = Radulovic J, Jovasevic V, Meyer MA | title = Neurobiological mechanisms of state-dependent learning | journal = Current Opinion in Neurobiology | volume = 45 | pages = 92–98 | date = August 2017 | pmid = 28558266 | pmc = 5654544 | doi = 10.1016/j.conb.2017.05.013 }}</ref> At present, however, there is no evidence that what Radulovic found with rats occurs in the memory systems of humans, and it is not clear that human memories for traumatic experiences are typically "recovered" by placing the individual back in the mental state that was experienced during the original trauma.