Memory Effects On Childhood Sexual Abuse

Memory is very fascinating there are many methods that you can withhold information. Without memory we would not be able to remember what we did yesterday, what we have done today or what we plan to do tomorrow. Without memory we could not remember anything. Memory Storage is the ability to retain information in the brain. Storage Memory involves receiving information to the brain and being able to get the information out the brain when needed. We have short term memory where you restore memory for a limited time and long term memory where the memory can be retrieve anytime. Recall or retrieval of memory helps so we can re-accessed information from the past that has been encoded and stored in the brain. Throughout the paper I will incorporate how memory effects childhood sexual abuse. My main focus will display how sexual abuse in childhood is repress in adulthood. …show more content…
The three main processes involved in the human memory are encoding, storage and recall (retrieval). It is said that having "a traumatic event unconsciously retained in the mind, where it is said to adversely affect conscious thought, desire, and action" (1). A person who has been Sexual abuse as child can recovered that memory if they experience something that trigger a spontaneous memory. “There is general agreement among memory researchers that memories of events which happened before the age of 24 months are never remembered into adulthood and cannot be recovered. Memories before the age of 36 months are rare and not particularly reliable.”(2). This research paper we are going to focus on how traumatic events such as child abuse is repress as adult. . We are going concentrate on the effects it has on the memory and why sexual abuse victim keep stored in there unconscious