Dissociative Amnesia Psychology

Repressed memory is defined as a memory that was or is actively repressed by a human’s brain to protect them from a psychologically devastating impact of that memory (such as child abuse, rape, molestation, and more). It is interesting that our mind has the ability to disassociate just to shelter us from our psychological harm. Even though some people believe repressed memories should stay hidden because it would only hurt the person that it belongs to, I think it is better to have the memory and deal with it, and not having a piece of your life missing.

Throughout this entire week, I have come to learn that memories are reconstructed when we remember them; however, this doesn’t make them fake, they are indeed real in my opinion. This is also my opinion on repressed memories. Repressed memories are real. Therapies in which therapist continue to suggest there’s “something else” (Loftus) are the reason why people doubt the authenticity of repressed memories. In the video False Memories, the study showing how subjectable people are to formulating false memories is astonishing and it proves just how easy it is to create fake memories. I believe that suggestibility is the main cause behind constructed/fake memories: Paul McHugh made it very clear in Can Trama Hid in the Back of the Mind?” to remind people that certain types of therapies (hypnosis and drugs) can make a person more susceptible. “Some contemporary therapists have been known to tell

In summation, all these research articles support the hypothesis that although there are different causes to false memories, none can determine if a person 's memory is true or false. Although these studies show what could be some of the causes of false memories, they cannot necessarily prove if a memory is true or false where it really matters. Certain factors such as suggestibility, arousal, and mere exposure can be said to influence false memories, but these alone will not determine if a person is telling the truth (Bernstein & Loftus, 2009; Corson & Verrier, 2007; Foster & Garry, 2012). Future studies could consider where these false memories are a problem and try to conduct their studies in these settings. They usually take place in the real world, not in a laboratory where the aforementioned studies took place. Future studies could also try to focus more on trying to create a more serious type of false memory. Unfortunately, this would be a violation of ethic codes. For the time being the studies available will only be able to create false memories with minor things as these studies did with food and instructions. As mentioned in Bernstein and Loftus (2009), a therapist could not ethically deceive their own patients, even if it 's for their patients ' own good. Putting the idea to practice will be trickier than it

Going to the article again and to our book, I do agree with points expressing that how repressed memories can also be false memories that are just making monsters by the active imagination. There are some cases of repressed memories that lead to false accusations and might destroy someone’s reputation and ruin their

Amnesia is the total or partial loss of memory and can affect different types of memory (Madan, 2011). In order to be able to help those with amnesia using the best treatment, the different forms of amnesia need to be understood correctly. In knowing this, the treatment can be designed around the type of amnesia, with the cause, symptoms and ways to help becoming more specific and focused. By studying the diseases and improving our knowledge of the roles that memory plays we can increase our understanding of the brain structures and how the types of memory fit together. In this essay I am going to look at Psychogenic Amnesia (PA) and Organic Amnesia (OA),

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The Vow is a romantic drama movie produced by Michael Sucsy in 2012, and it is inspired by the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter. The movie tells the story of Kim and Krickitt’s actual relationship, including how they were involved in a serious car accident, which caused Kim to lose her memory of the last 5 years of her life. In the movie, Paige Collin and her husband Leo are two main characters that played the role of Kim and Krickitt. The car accident occurs when the couple stopped their car at a stop sign on their way home and Paige unbuckles her seatbelt to lean over and kiss Leo. At that exact moment, a truck rams into their car from behind and Paige crashed through windshield. Both Leo and Paige were rushed to the hospital and

An increasingly conspicuous phenomenon is the Mandela Effect. It relates directly to confabulation, which is defined as a disturbance in memory, without the consciences’ intention to deceive. This means that someone can remember something to be a certain way and be very intent in it’s truth, but in reality the memory is incorrect. For example, the majority of society remembers the popular children book series being titled ‘Berenstein Bears’. If you look back at the books, they are actually titled ‘Berenstain Bears’, which many people don’t recall it ever being called. While our brains do make errors, the Mandela Effect addresses a large group of people all having identical memories but they are incorrect. This causes a confusion in society. So many people remember something the same way, but it is not the truth. Because of this problem, reality seems to be distorted and the accuracy of our brains is in question. The Mandela Effect makes it impossible for us to trust our societal brain.

Although on the surface, the element of memory in the study of psychology may seem basic and rudimentary, the depths of memory are essentially, untapped. To truly understand the depths of memory, one must understand the storage of memory, the recollection of memory, and the processes of sharing memories. In order to obtain a better understanding of the subject matter, the examination of the independent documentary, Stories We Tell, was applied. Memory is also conceptualized into types, stages, and processes. These principles were measured in the lucrative and thorough examination of a childhood memory. In order to ensure the reliability and validity of the memory, the use of self-recollection, the use of recording, and the use of sharing with

But it is difficult to evaluate these findings because it changed from a person to another and it also could be a lie of the person if there was no witness. Another important factor is the therapist who always raised the issue of sexual abuse or traumatic situation during the treatment, he maybe wanted to confirm his beliefs instead of providing the real memory. Thus, this treatment could create a “false memories” which did not exist in people’s life story. In conclusion, the repressed memory is very complex and controversial. People find more difficult to find out the root of this edge cutting issue (Loftus,

The usual events that produced repression of experienced trauma including torture, threat of severe personal harm, interference with the most fundamental biological needs and sexual abuse. Repressed memory of the individual usually not accessible to consciousness although the person had been questioned and provided with simulation of pictures, sounds or written documents of the repressed events. This situation clarified the nature of repressed memories. Repression is a consequence of dissociation during traumatic event and although the victim tried to recall her past, she might remembered the memories incorrectly as repression of memories is not caused by dissociation form the painful information during the attempted recall. For instance, individual who experienced childhood sexual abuse could not able to recall her past, to be exact the situation when the abuse happened until she found the “access code” to the memories. She needed to recall some characteristics of sound, smell, image, taste or somatic feeling before she could gain access to the repressed memories. Once repressed memories are recalled, they were recognized by a reasonably healthy mind as genuine. However the mind that had been severely damaged through incest may fail to make

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a diagnosis first featured in the DSM IV in 1994. Prior to this, the disorder was referred to as multiple personality disorder. According to Michelson & Ray, dissociation is a human experience that dates back to prehistoric times with the shaman peoples and appears to be a “fundamental and universal component of human psychology” (History, para. 1). It is important to recognize that dissociation is normal to an extent. “The first case of multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), was described by Paracelsus in 1646” (Farrell, 2011). Although the disorder appears to be prevelent throughout human history, academic interest in dissociative

Recent research in psychology has explored the various theories about early childhood memories and infantile amnesia, and how these theories could possibly explain why adults have been unable to remember little to nothing before the ages of 3.5 to 4 years. Unlike the name of this phenomenon, infantile amnesia goes beyond the memories of infancy and inhibits the recollection of memories created for the first 2.5 years of life. Although most adults can recall memories for events that have happened during the ages of 3 and 6 years, very little information can be remember in comparison to memories recalled after 6 years (Bjorklund, 2012). According to David F. Bjorklund (2012), infantile amnesia could be attributed to the lack of ability to create autobiographical memories at such a young age. Autobiographical memories are long lasting memories that are the foundation of individuals’ life accounts (Bjorklund,

One famous case of amnesia supporting Squire's view is patient H.M. (Scoville & Milner, 1957), who had parts of his left and right temporal lobe, hippocampus, amygdala and surrounding areas of both removed. He developed severe anterograde amnesia, the inability to learn new information, resulting in an almost completely absent short-term memory storage. He also had moderate retrograde amnesia, unable to remember information between 3 to 11 years prior to his surgery, but with other long-term memories unaffected. Explaining this, Squire argued that memories are consolidated in the hippocampus, easily disrupted by trauma during this. They become less dependent on the hippocampus with time, eventually being stored in the neocortex (Alvarez &

The article was based off a team effort of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and University of Cambridge Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience base out of Cambridge England did a study try to examine how suppression affect a memory’s unconscious influence people. The research study focused on suppression of visual memories. Researchers first believed that majority of trauma had a visual aspect (University of Cambridge, 2014). That most people who have some type of traumatic experiences like military war or some detrimental close encounter visualizes traumatic experience. That these fortunate circumstances had been imbedded in their psyche and with something so traumatic they will never forget the