Summary Erasing Bad Memories is an article that can be found on the American Psychological Association website. This article shows what researchers, neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing to try to understand how frightening memories are made and how they can possibly rid the mind of them. Many people suffer from anxiety. Usually, anxiety is induced by fearful memories. Even though someone may be in a safe situation, their brain brings back the memories and create it anxiety. Throughout research, scientists have found that when we first encounter a frightening event, the thalamus sends sensory information to the amygdala. The amygdala is a part of the brain that deals with emotions especially fear and aggression. Once the information
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“Even long-term memories, when recalled, have plasticity and the potential to be updated, an ability psychologists co-opt during exposure therapy, in which a patient faces his or her fears in a non-threatening environment in the hope of gaining control of them” (Lu, 2015, par. 6). Although this may work for some, there are still people that aren’t able to rid their memories of the association. Researchers don’t understand why people react differently in these situations. Gregory J. Kirk believes that it might be because the prefrontal cortex isn’t as connected to the amygdala, so the information that is being stored there doesn’t come out as easily when there are sensory …show more content…
This is the second criteria listed on UC Berkeley’s evaluating web pages guide. Firstly, Erasing Bad Memories can be found on the American Psychological Association’s website. It is also apart of the magazine called Monitor on Psychology. If we look directly at the url, http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/02/bad-memories.aspx, we can see that it comes right off of the APA website. The “apa.org” is a clear give away that this article is specifically for the use of informing the reader about psychology. Random people can’t just upload an article onto this website. Another important thing to look at according to UC Berkeley’s Library is what is the domain? The domain on this article’s url is .org. In this case, it is easier to tell if the website is credible because it isn’t a .com or .net. These two aren’t usually as credible because they can be purchased and used by
“Even long-term memories, when recalled, have plasticity and the potential to be updated, an ability psychologists co-opt during exposure therapy, in which a patient faces his or her fears in a non-threatening environment in the hope of gaining control of them” (Lu, 2015, par. 6). Although this may work for some, there are still people that aren’t able to rid their memories of the association. Researchers don’t understand why people react differently in these situations. Gregory J. Kirk believes that it might be because the prefrontal cortex isn’t as connected to the amygdala, so the information that is being stored there doesn’t come out as easily when there are sensory …show more content…
This is the second criteria listed on UC Berkeley’s evaluating web pages guide. Firstly, Erasing Bad Memories can be found on the American Psychological Association’s website. It is also apart of the magazine called Monitor on Psychology. If we look directly at the url, http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/02/bad-memories.aspx, we can see that it comes right off of the APA website. The “apa.org” is a clear give away that this article is specifically for the use of informing the reader about psychology. Random people can’t just upload an article onto this website. Another important thing to look at according to UC Berkeley’s Library is what is the domain? The domain on this article’s url is .org. In this case, it is easier to tell if the website is credible because it isn’t a .com or .net. These two aren’t usually as credible because they can be purchased and used by