Memory

Repressed Memories 2 There has been a huge, conflicted debate about whether or not repressed memories are actually real. Many people practice this therapy because according to Freud’s theory of “repression”, the only cure for neurosis is to make the repressed memories conscious (Skeptic’s Dictionary, 2014). Some psychologists say it can negatively affect the person both emotionally and mentally because it can make the effects of trauma…

In order to understand the impact of a traumatic memory from the past on the present we must first understand what memory is. The act of remembering is something we begin to do subconsciously, it is an innate evolutionary feature adapted for survival. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences and we use it in our daily lives without realising.Fundamentally, memory represents a change in who we are. Our habits, our ideologies, our hopes and fears are all influenced…

Suppressing bad memories from the past can block memory formation in the here and now, research suggests. The study could help to explain why those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological conditions often experience difficulty in remembering recent events, scientists say. Writing in Nature Communications, the authors describe how trying to forget past incidents by suppressing our recollections can create a “virtual lesion” in the brain that casts an…

The memory works in a process of three stages- encoding, storage and retrieval. This enables humans to learn new material, store the material and then retrieve and extract it at a later date when necessary (Eysenck & Keane, 2010). However, many psychologists have researched the effect of emotion on these stages of memory processing. Many have been interested in the idea of emotion affecting the ability to accurately retrieve past events due to many alternating factors. Some argue that matching…

“Memory – like liberty – is a fragile thing.” - Elizabeth Loftus. We tend to think about memories like photographs. They’re snippets of the past, and we go over the most monumental (or embarrassing) moments in our lives time and time again, sometimes just to remind ourselves of who we are. It's such a fundamental part of our daily routines that we forget how reliant we are on memories. Every thing from the taste of strawberries to the name of that film you saw yesterday are all parts of what…

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…

especially working memory. Many college students read, do homework or prepare for exams while listening to music. Background music is an important environmental factor in our learning context that may have impact on our attention span and later recall of information. However, whether background music serves as a distractor or enhancer on memory remain an open question. Some studies suggest that long-term music training positively related to improvements in working memory. For example,…

Limitation to memory training One of the limitation of memory training are many productive mnemonic strategies which is invented to work in a particular region and do not always been summarily generalize to new situations. The second is a more noteworthy limitation is that even when people who know suitable memory strategies for optimizing their learning knowledge but they do not always use them. Instinctively using of mnemonic strategies seems to depend on cognitive control, and therefore…

seeing a blue van, but in reality, it was a white van at the scene, the witness may be experiencing a false memory. False memory is the changing of details of an event or remembering an event that did not happen. False memoires can have long lasting consequences and have been linked to important situations of high risk, like court room proceedings. There are usually three components of false memory. The first according to Bookbinder & Brainerd, is the remembering of events that never occurred,…

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…