Is suppression the same as repression? Gary Peterson
Gerald (Gary) L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Saginaw Valley State University
University Center, MI 48710
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> Dark thoughts
> Freud may have been right: people can suppress memories
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> Michael Anderson and Collin Green of the University of Oregon in Eugene
> asked
> 32 people to memorise a list of 50 or so simple pairs of words, such as
> "ordeal" and "roach".
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> The volunteers were then presented with the first word and asked either to
> recall the second or banish it from their minds for four seconds.
Volunteers
> were asked to suppress the second word between zero and 16 times.
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> The researchers found that volunteers were much less able to recall words
> that
> had been repressed many times - even when they were offered money to
> remember.
> "I'm not making the claim that you're forgetting the memory," says
Anderson.
> "It's inhibited, not erased."
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> Full text:
> http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999519
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