The author of a popular textbook on introductory psychology (which I use when I teach that course) concludes that the following evidence disproves Freud’s construct of repression: “Shouldn’t we expect...

The author of a popular textbook on introductory psychology (which I use when I teach that course) concludes that the following evidence disproves Freud’s construct of repression: “Shouldn’t we expect children who have witnessed a parent’s murder to repress the experience? A study of sixteen 5- to 10-year-old children who had this horrifi c experience found that not one repressed the memory. Shouldn’t survivors of Nazi death camps have banished the atrocities from consciousness? With rare exceptions, they remember all too well.” (D. G. Myers, 2006, pp. 604–605). Why is the author’s conclusion incorrect?