Ned's parents got divorced when he was seven years old. Ned's older sister vividly remembers the frequent, loud screaming matche
s between her mother and father in the weeks prior to the divorce, but Ned claims that he has no memories of his parents ever fighting. If Ned has unconsciously blocked awareness of those painful memories, it would be an example of:
Repressed memory is psychological phenomenon in which memories of traumatic events which someone experienced while growing up may be stored in the unconscious mind and blocked from normal conscious recall.
Just like Ned claims that he had no memories of his parents ever fighting, he simply blocked those painful memories inorder not to remember them knowing fully well what it is- <em>a very painful memory.</em>
The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits, developed from the 1980s onward in psychological trait theory.
