Mrs. McBride cannot consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would cause her too much anxiety. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates .

Repression

Explanation:

Mrs. McBride cannot consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would cause her too much anxiety. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrate repression.

Repression is the exclusion of distressing memories, feeling or thoughts from the conscious mind, it involves pushing painful thoughts into the unconscious in order to remain unaware of the situation or problem.

According to Sigmund Freud  in his psychoanalytic theory,repression is used to repressed memory.