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    remember positive memories than they are to remember negative memories. My Initial Hypothesis I believe that because people want to be happy they are more likely to remember positive memories and forget the negative memories. I wanted to know why we can remember some memories but not others and what causes us to remember certain memories. Prior to my research, I was under the impression that one way to remember a memory was to recall it often. The more a person thinks about a certain memory the…

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    Flashbulb Memory Theory

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    The theory of flashbulb memory was suggested in 1977 by Brown and Kulik, and is described as a “special type of emotional memory which refers to vivid and detailed memories of highly emotional events, that appear to be recorded in the brain as though with the help of a camera’s flash” (Crane and Hannibal). Brown and Kulik suggested that there may be “a special neural mechanism that triggers an emotional arousal because the event is unexpected or extremely important”. There have been many studies…

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    Memory represents a person’s perception of self and identity. Reflecting on past memories and experiences allows a person to recognize who he or she is and where he or she came from. In the novel, Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan, a disease known as anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis inflames Cahalan’s brain, inducing cognitive deficiencies such as hallucinations, paranoia, and slurred speech. Cahalan refers to her hospital stay as her “month of madness” because these symptoms…

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    through a stressful or traumatic event they will sometimes repress their memories. According to Freud 's theory on repression, a repressed memory is the memory of stressful event where it affect conscious thought and action. As a result, children will have trouble recalling this information. If a child who has witnessed a traumatic event is used as an eyewitness, they will have difficult time remembering the event because of the memory repression. In addition, children who experienced the…

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    whose goal is to delve into the human mind (my own brain is a private matter, personally), but I still hold an appreciation for any chance to expand my knowledge. I’ve held this opinion towards information for as long as I can remember, as for some reason learning has always come naturally for me, along with a natural desire to read and reflect, explore and study- the memorization of a plethora of paleontological taxon quite effortless in concurrence with my interest in extinct creatures. It…

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    How to Let Go of Painful Memories Yesterday was the past; It is gone and will never again be. We often believe that there really is not much we can do about the past. Some people smile when seeing something that reminds the past. Other are too scared to think about it. We know that the most emotional memory that people will never be able to forget is the result of cued recall about our memories. My friend, Sam almost drowned when I pushed him down into the river. I am scared to remember about…

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    (Clionsky 2015) These factors can drastically affect the body emotionally. Some patients get frustrated and mad due to not remembering certain tasks that needed to be completed. It’s definitely not easy to have a disease like this, to forget the memories, the last phone call conversation or to even forget what was consumed for breakfast. People diagnosed will eventually…

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    Being forgetful once in a while is not an abnormal occurrence; however, memory loss is a much more significant generative characteristic of dementia. Short term memory is usually affected first although the person may continue to have remarkable long term memory as far as early childhood. Absorbing new information such as the name of a new housemate can be unattainable. A person diagnosed with this type of cognitive…

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    In the Radiolab podcast “Outside Westgate” and the article “Why Our Memory Fails Us” by Christopher F. Chabris and Daniel J. Simons, the topic of memories are discussed in both of the works. Unreliable memories can affect our court system and the people involved in the trials. In our society, criminals are tried in court more often than not and the courts require eyewitness testimony from people at to scene of the crime to help convict the person being tried. However, most trials don’t happen…

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    Taking myself as an example, I feel I have improved a lot intellectually, and whatever I produce now I consider as original. I remember when in school back home I would score 100% in most of my classes. I would spend hours memorizing my notes, and putting myself to tests to see just how much I had memorized. That was effective learning to me, and one who did that was considered a hardworking student- an effective student. I would memorize lines from the different…

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