Editing Repressed memory (section)

====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" />