Jim's Inaccurate Flashbulb Memory

Good friend, W. (2012, December 4). Amnesia in '50 First Dates ' Retrieved July 21, 2016, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychologist-the-movies/201212/amnesia-in-50-first-dates

The speech from Elizabeth Loftus “The Fiction of Memory” she mentions that she study false memory for almost 30 years. False memory is the things that people remember but didn’t happened or remember it differently than the way they really were.

We can forget information through decay which is the when memories fade away that happens in sensory and short-term memory. Interference can cause us to forget because it is a memory blocking or deleting another memory. Two types of interference are retroactive and proactive interference. Retroactive interference is when new information interferes with the old information. Proactive interference is when old information interferes with the new information. We can also repress our memories which means that we push the unwanted memory so deep inside the mind it becomes outside of our awareness. Cue-dependent forgetting is the most common type of forgetting which is when we cannot access a memory because we don’t have enough retrieval cues. State-dependent learning is important because we can access memories better if we are in the same environmental and emotional state. Retrograde amnesia is when we lose memories before an event occurred. Anterograde amnesia is when we can’t form new memories after an event occurs. A study that exemplifies forgetting is Millner & Scoville (1957) study on H.M. They found out that H.M could no longer be able to form new memories because the hippocampus is needed to transfer short-term memories into long-term memories. Since H.M is no longer able to form new memories, he suffers from anterograde amnesia. (Millner & Scoville,

This paper serves as a reaction to the article “Oh Where, Oh Where Have Those Early Memories Gone? A Developmental Perspective on Childhood Amnesia” by Patricia J. Bauer, PhD. The article expresses the author’s thoughts on Childhood amnesia, rather the rates that children and adults forget early life experiences. It addresses forgetting rates of you children and adults. I agree with the author’s thoughts related to age progression and the rate of forgetting.

This paper is on the article “Clues Hint at 2 Brain’s Memory Maps” by Sandra Blakeslee. It was issued by the New York Times on February 15th, of 1985. This piece explores amnesia and the effects it had on different types of memory. It uses various empirical evidence such as small case studies and experiments.

Eyewitness testimony is something which describes a person’s observations about any event or incident. Remembering something and recalling it later is possible because of memory. So, the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will or when asked is memory. Eyewitness testimony in children is a part of their reconstructive memory according to “Elizabeth Loftus”. Reconstructive memory is the act of remembering and it is also influenced by various other factors and cognitive processes as well. While remembering the things or taking them into account for further usage children think that whatever they are seeing or observing will

This article provides information on verbal short-term memory. Also, it explains the differences in performance for different types of verbal material by the inherent characteristics of the verbal items making up memory sequences. It is mentioned how short term memory in different types of experience with sequences of different types is supposedly controlled by studied exclusion by presenting numerous trials constructed from

Short term memory is associated with Anterograde Amnesia. There are medications that can help with this process in helping your

Jim 's parents won the lottery when he was a child. Jim recently learned that his memory of the day his parents won the lottery is wrong. Jim 's initial recollection of the event was referred to as a flashbulb memory; a very vivid memory of an emotional experience. Flashbulb memories can deteriorate and adjust over time, forming phantom flashbulb memories. Also, this false memory can be explained by a form of source monitoring confusion.

Imagine someone telling you an interesting story that has you intrigued. Once they reach the end of the story they ask if you remember what took place. For the life of you, you cannot recall this taking place. They continue on attempting to make you believe you were actually apart of this story; until you eventually agree to being there without remembering all the details. Due to you being able to remember all the details allows for false memories to occur. It can be extremely easy to create false memories in children. Research has proven adults can also create false memories under different circumstances. When we are asked to explain things that happened, if we are asked leading questions, we may be led to say some things

As study by Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich (2009) stated that our memory of an event can be altered when exposed to misinformation. Their research was conducted by adding misinformation when there was a no test and a test involved. However, one thing these studies have in common is how accurate one is able to recall the incident being shown and remember the details. Through their experiment the researchers learned that the participants learned misinformation better when they were tested, than when they were not being

Repressed memories are memories a person subconsciously forgets but later remembers. These are typically memories one wants to forget, most commonly, childhood abuse. Many times what they are remembered is at a time when they likely did not fully understand what was going on. Many of the stories of abuse happen when the child is under the age of about 8 and they don’t know what is truly happening and that it is wrong.

How natural is it that we can remember things from a long time ago and sometimes forget things we experienced or learned a day before? The brain is a complex and strong organ but sometimes it can fail us. There are stages for a person to get certain information remembered it and transferred to long term memory for future use. First stage would be encoding, when information comes into your memory system. Every person has a different way of processing information. Some visualize the structure, phonemic is when they hear things as they sound, or semantic is to have a meaningful understanding, which is the best way to encode. That information would be stored and then retrieved when needed. Retrieval of information depends on how we store it. This process is transferring information to short term memory, which adults are able to process up to seven items, two more or less. In some cases it's hard for

Memory is a thing of bewilderment. Memory not only creates a housing for memorizing a formula or book, but at its forefront good and bad memories, which can be accessed by the beholder at any time. In the novel Toby’s Room by Pat Barker, Elinor, one of the main characters, seems to be in a sort of crisis within her memory functions after she experiences mental distress from unfortunate experiences. The effect throughout the novel is that Elinor cannot have a clear perception of reality since she encounters and sometimes creates herself some kind of distortion like when she cannot escape her past by painting settings of her past, or even in some of her social experiences that ultimately leads to nostalgia.

John Locke’s claim was that personal identity is psychological continuity. This where personal identity is founded on consciousness and not the substance of the soul or body. Regarding Locke’s personal identity there are weaknesses that are present. One weakness is that we can only remember our experiences because it is already ours, but not because the memory of the experience is mines. A memory can reveal my identity with a past experience but that does not make the past experiencer me. For example, let's say on a thiefs 50th birthday he remembered stealing money out of his mom's purse when he was 7. Then let's say on his deathbed at the age of 101 he remember stealing money out of his piggybank at the age of 14, but he forgot about stealing