Amnesia

difficulty problems commonly arising in the false memory debate is “defining terms such as amnesia, recovery, repression, trauma, therapy, and even forgetting”; especially when there are scientifically proven cases of psychogenic amnesia (or functional amnesia) which refers to “a temporary loss of memory precipitated by a psychological trauma” (Memon & Young, 1998). But the line is thinly drawn between psychogenic amnesia and recovered memories by the concept of repression. Sigmund Freud was the…

Beli’s efforts to forget the violence of her early life reflect a greater effort of the Dominican people trying to separate themselves from the Trujillo legacy through forgetting and selective memory. Beli, “Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination” (Diaz 259). As Monica Hanna states, “Forgetting is a seductive prospect when memory seems only to recall pain, but this consistently proves to be a very dangerous choice”…

Christian Swegal’s “Stasis” seems to be set some time during the future. The main protagonist, through some confusion revealed as Henry Archer, gets amnesia after activating a proximity mine while on duty. The two only memories he retains is about the briefing of the mission and a woman. Henry goes through many different stages of during this time period that one might think he had psychological trauma not just from the accident. There are many elements in this production worked very well to…

Are we too confident with our memories? Recalling memories is something that’s done on the daily, and is a very easy task to accomplish. We remember our last meal, what we did last weekend, and much more. Memories are recalled on our leisure and when they matter, like being an eyewitness to a crime. Regardless of what is being recalled the memory is firm; that is that the way the memory is remember is exactly the what it happened. For how much confidence we put in our memories our memories are…

Introduction There is a schism in the public opinion on the topic of memory, and there seems to be no clear consensus on, just how the human memory works. Not only there not widely spread misconception on how memory works in the public, but this misconception in the way memory functions has spread to our highest levels of law and justice too. There was a time that even the field of psychology was confused and divided by this issue. So, if psychology is what everybody looks to in for the answer…

Many people believe that their memory is infallible, that the way they remember an event is exactly as it happened. In truth, memory is flexible and can be influenced by a variety of factors such as use of language – for example, in the use of leading questions -, emotions and mental illness. This means that what a person believes to be true may not be true at all, and could in fact be a reconstruction based on their brains attempts to make sense of a scene that it does not understand. Due to…

Study Response – Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime 1. What did the study seek to explore? In this study, the researchers strived to determine if untrue memories could be created in participants if done in a controlled way. If the researchers were able to do so, they wished to determine how established these memories would be, and how their qualities could compare to similar emotional events and true memories. (Shaw, Porter, 2015) As well, the researchers wished to find out if…

Halle Pietro 11/11/16 Memory Essay Psy101-092WB The mind is a very mysterious process that researchers and doctors still do not completely understand. It is a giant complex command center that is capable of knowing everything because of all that it is exposed to. In memory video 1, they discuss “The Mind Hidden and Divided”. The video is an overview of Sigmund Freud’s research and how certain events and experiences originating in the subconscious understanding of our conscious lives. The topics…

Analysis of: Distinct processes shape flashbulb and event memories Brittany Cook Dr. Grabbe- PSY 312 Analysis Paper November 20, 2015 Analysis of: Distinct processes shape flashbulb and event memories This article discusses the study done by students from the University of Turin in Turin Italy, Carla Tinti, Susanna Schmidt, Silvia Testa, and Linda J. Levine. They examined the relationship between memory for a consequential and emotional event and memory for the circumstances in which…

Memory can be reformed, however, this fact is not always accurate; memory is frequently flawed due to people being biased with deductions about what we assume to happen and generate false memories. Reconstructive memory is a cause for memories that aren’t always reliable. During the year 1973, Loftus worked with sematic memory. She conducted an experiment where she presented an occurrence and had the participants list categories associated with the event. She measured the time of reaction, the…