Motivated forgetting mediated by implicit verbal chaining: a laboratory analog of repression.
After learning an A-B paired-associates list, college students read a list of D words, several of which were consistently accompanied by unavoidable electric shock. The D words were members of implicit B-C, C-D chains, inferred from published word-association norms. In a subsequent recall test of the original A-B list, the B words that were implicitly associated with the shocked D words were forgotten significantly more often than control words.
D004597:Electroshock; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D009042:Motivation; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning