Aaron went to school one day with his zipper down. Horribly embarrassed, he asked his friend to never speak of the event. Years later when asked about that event, Aaron doesn't remember that it ever happened. He is exhibiting forgetting.

Motivated forgetting

Explanation:

It is a psychological behaviour in which a person forgets unwanted memories either unconsciously or consciously.

It is a defence mechanism as there are conscious and unconscious coping techniques involved to reduced anxiety that arise due to unacceptable impulses.

Motivated forgetting have two types psychological repression and thought suppression. In thought suppression a person tries to exclude memories and thoughts form his awareness, while psychological repression is done unconsciously.

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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.