Eric Couldn't Remember Anything from His Childhood Until He Went

Multiple Choice

Eric couldn't remember anything from his childhood until he went for psychotherapy to treat his anxiety disorder. After just a few sessions, Eric started remembering painful incidents in his childhood during which he was beaten and made to feel ashamed. Eric's difficulty in remembering his childhood was probably because of:

A) retroactive interference.
B) proactive interference.
C) motivated forgetting.
D) encoding failure.