Retrograde amnesia

In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, both Sethe and Paul D escape their physical bondage as slaves; however, a comparison between Sweet Home and 124, both places of torment and suffering, reveals how emotional bondage can also enslave a person sometimes without them even noticing. As we learn from piecing together flashbacks the characters share, our two main protagonists Sethe and Paul D begin their story at a farm called Sweet Home, where they are slaves to the Garner family. Although these…

A very interesting topic, repressed memories. A topic that is complex and very hard to proove and yet hard to discredit. While I am sure this is a situation that does happen, it probably is less common than has been reported. The main focus in this article seems to be oriented around child abuse memories being repressed. I believe children have the ablilty to try and protect themselves by repressing horrifying experiences. While I am sure there are many real cases of people repressing…

Post-event rumination involves a tendency to review social situations in a detailed and negative fashion, and often leads to the re-experiencing of situations. This processing of information includes intrusive and extensive recalling of memories that results in high levels of anxiety (Morgan & Banerjee, 2008) and of negative self-images that perpetuate the assumption they do not perform well in social situations, and leads to an increase in avoidance behavior (Kashdan & Roberts, 2007). The type…

In recent years there have been a number of malpractice lawsuits filed against psychiatrists and counselors claiming that “false memories” had been implanted in patients, thus causing turmoil and anguish in the patient’s lives, as acknowledged in the article, “Creating False Memories” by Elizabeth F. Loftus. Loftus adds that the victims in all mentioned cases in the article were awarded substantial settlements. The author asserts that research is revealing how “suggestion and imagination” can…

Loftus has found that when an event is recalled, it isn’t accurately re-created. The memory is actually a reconstruction of the actual event. Your brain is using new and existing information to fill the gaps in your memory. She states that memories can change over time. Going off of what we know about memory, this study focuses on the wording of questions asked of eyewitnesses could alter their memories of events when they were asked other questions about the events at a later time. In…

Shelby grew up in a small town where everyone knew everyone type of deal. For the most part the book Remember Me Always took place at several different locations within her small hometown. Except, Shelby had been taking many trips to Denver to have more treatments to help with her memories. As Shelby starts to have more questions about her past she runs into Auden. Auden tries to bring back Shelby’s memories by taking her to the places where they shared special moments. Shelby’s first memory…

I was very disgusted by the happenings with the McMartin trials. I was shocked, that this would happen at a preschool where many children are sent. This is so sad. Parents trust other people with their kids and don't expect anyone to ever touch their children in this way. However, the article tells us that Judy Johnson ends up going psychotic, I would then believe that she may have made up the story. I think that memory distortion happens to everyone. It is common for one to think that only…

To explain Jim's inaccurate vivid flashbulb memory of him remembering a day when his parents won the lottery and recalling all the events and things that went on in that day exactly as he believes they did. A simple and logical explanation that psychologists would come out with in answering this question would be that Jim has gathered all these false memories from events he has gone throughout his life. Perhaps just a month before he recalled his memory he had played the board games with his…

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…

What is a false memory? Have you ever encountered a False Memory? If you have, do not worry because they happen to everyone and is very normal to have them throughout life. In many cases, false memories can be a huge bother to many people because of the hassle of not remembering something that was on the "tip of your tongue". False memories can be defined as a recollection of a memory that did not actually occur, for example sexual assault or maybe winning an achievement/ award. When false…