Anthony went to school one day with his zipper down. he considers it his most embarrassing moment ever and would rather forget that the event ever occurred. anthony is exhibiting forgetting.

Anthony is exhibiting selective forgetting, where someone chooses to repress an uncomfortable or embarrassing memory. With practice, a person can train themselves to deliberately forget traumatic events. The more a person dwells on a specific memory, the more likely they are to revisit and remember it. The mind can be trained to selectively ignore negative memories and eventually, with constant ignorance, forget those memories completely.