Freud used the term 'repression' to account for:

Correct option is C

Sigmund Freud, in his psychoanalytic theory, used the term "repression" to explain childhood amnesia, a phenomenon where adults cannot recall memories from the earliest years of their lives. Freud believed that the unconscious mind represses emotionally charged or traumatic memories to protect the individual from psychological distress. This repression mechanism is a cornerstone of Freud's theory of the unconscious and defense mechanisms.
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Childhood amnesia is now understood through a blend of Freud's psychoanalytic ideas and modern neuroscience. While Freud emphasized repression, contemporary explanations include neurobiological immaturity in early childhood and the lack of developed language to encode memories meaningfully.
· Defensive Amnesia (a): Memory loss due to trauma but unrelated to Freud's childhood amnesia theory.
· Dream Amnesia (b): A common phenomenon of forgetting dreams upon waking, not linked to repression.
· Modern Viewpoint: Research attributes childhood amnesia to underdeveloped hippocampal function in infants and toddlers, crucial for memory formation.