Is forgetting an intentional act? Explain why or why not.

The text explains that forgetting is due to proactive and retroactive interference and decay. I do not believethat forgetting is an intentional act.I think that to intentionally forget would depend on many factors. The first factor is whether or not the information is trying to intentionally forget and has been encoded into long term memory. If it is something that has already been processed, than it would notbe easily forgotten. Memory is an important part of cognitive functioning and retaining information and experiences for the future, however, sometimes people can lose memories or forget.

I truly feel this is not an intentional act, and there are several different reasons people forget memories, or cannot retain all the...