Kevin is legally required to send a quarterly check to his former wife, whom he divorced 20 years ago. it annoys him greatly and he finds he often forgets to send the check until several days after the due date. this is likely an example of:

Motivated forgetting

Explanation:

Motivated forgetting is a strategy that one uses to copy with an unwanted situation.

A person may replace that memory with current mode pleasant event and they end up forgetting the unpleasant memory.

There are two classes of Motivated Forgetting. Psychological Repression and Psychological suppression

1)Psychological Repression, an unconscious act

- Repression refers to the fact that we subconsciously send unwanted thoughts and feeling to our unconscious part of the mind. However , these memories always manifest themselves through someone's behavior , emotional response and in their decisions , eventhough they are repressed.

An example will be someone who was abused in their childhood they will struggle with trusting people.

Thought Suppression, a conscious act

- This is when someone intentionally suppress the thought of those memories that are disturbing and disruptive to us. This means a period finds ways they can use to focus on something else but this means they can still be brought up if anything triggers them.

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