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Recent reviews of child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosure indicate that many victims delay disclosing abuse for some period of time (e.g., London, Bruck, Ceci, & Shuman, 2005). During this period of non-disclosure, CSA victims may avoid thinking about or discussing their abuse experiences. Some scholars argue that this may lead to a directed forgetting (DF) effect, whereby later recall of the unrehearsed memories becomes more difficult (e.g., M. A. Epstein & Bottoms, 2002). This paper reviews the DF literature and discusses the potential contribution of DF to silence. The review begins with a description of the basic DF protocol used, discusses underlying mechanisms thought to be responsible for the DF effect, and then examines applications of the DF protocol to memory for emotion-laden word lists and autobiographical events. Overall, the applied studies demonstrate that DF effects generalise beyond memory for innocuous word lists; however, we describe several important avenues of research that require further exploration. Most noteworthy, and particularly relevant to the common application of DF to memory for CSA, are those studies that examine the influence of DF on children's autobiographical memory.
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PMID:Failing to report details of an event: a review of the directed forgetting procedure and applications to reports of childhood sexual abuse. 1967 71

When Ss are presented a first set of items (Set A) followed by a second set (Set B), a postinput cue to recall only Set B results in better recall of Set B than does a cue to recall Set B then Set A; to a lesser extent, the same result holds for Set A. Such "Only" effects (Epstein, 1970) have typically been attributed to selective search processes at the time of recall. In the free-recall experiment reported here, cues to remember all, only two, or none of the items in each of eight successive four-word blocks were presented either before or after a 3-sec rehearsal period. Even though the search set at output was constant (16 to-be-recalled words), there was an Only effect for blocks followed by selective (postcue) rehearsal, whereas nonselective (precue) rehearsal produced no such effect. More striking than that result was the incredible ability of Ss, whatever the condition, to differentiate to-be-remembered and to-be-forgotten items. Set differentiation during input appears much more important as a mechanism of directed forgetting than either selective search or selective rehearsal.
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PMID:The relative roles of input and output mechanisms in directed forgetting. 2420 27