Theory of Repression - Evaluation
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- Evaluation Of Repression
- Hadley and MacKay (2007)
- participants recalled more taboo words than non-taboo words
- Challanges because theory would say the words that create anxiety would be forgotten
- participants recalled more taboo words than non-taboo words
- Kohler et al (2002)
- words creating anxiety and greater GSR were the worst remembered
- Supports as words that create anxiety would be forgotten
- words creating anxiety and greater GSR were the worst remembered
- Walker et al (1997)
- good recall of pleasent events, bad recall of unpleasent events
- Supports because events that create negative emotions would be forgotten
- good recall of pleasent events, bad recall of unpleasent events
- Berten (2002)
- Recalled details of shocking events better than details of average events
- challanges as events that create negative emotions would be forgotten
- Recalled details of shocking events better than details of average events
- Doesnt explain...
- why we forget unimportant events/details.
- low ecological validity
- lab experiments
- cant create the same state that caused trauma
- ethically wrong
- cant create the same state that caused trauma
- lab experiments
- Application
- post traumatic stress disorder
- Cannot be scientifically proven
- abstract concept
- takes place in the uncoinsious mind
- abstract concept
- Hadley and MacKay (2007)
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