Flash Memory

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Flash Memory

Flash Memory

PSYCHOLOGY TERM PAPER

    Memory is the main faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences.
A repressed memory, is one that is retained in the sub conscious mind, in which
one is not aware of it but where it can still affect both conscious thoughts,
memory, and behavior. When memory is distorted, the result can be referred to
what has been called the "False Memory Syndrome"(Thomas Billing Publishing
1995) : a condition in which a person's identity and interpersonal
relationships are entered around a memory of traumatic experience which is
obviously false but the person strongly believes that it isn't. However, the
syndrome is not only characterized by false memories alone. We all have
memories that are inaccurate. Instead, the syndrome may be diagnosed when the
memory is so severely disoriented that it changes the individual's entire
personality and lifestyle, therefore, disrupting all sorts of other behaviors.
The means of personality disorder is on purpose. False memory syndrome is
especially destructive because the person carefully avoids any confrontation
what so ever with any evidence that might challenge the memory. So this
syndrome takes on a life of its own, keeping itself to be alone and resistant
to correction. The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she
may be effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life.
    There are many models which try to explain how memory works.
Nevertheless, we do not know exactly how memory works. One of the most
questionable models of memory is the one which assumes that every experience a
person has had is "recorded" in memory and that, "some of these memories are
from traumatic events too terrible to want to remember"(Thomas Billings
Publishing 1995). . These terrible memories are locked away in the sub conscious
mind, (i.e. repressed, only to be remembered in adulthood when some triggering
event opens the door to the unconscious). Both before and after the repressed
memory is remembered, it causes physical and mental disorders in a person.
    Some people have made an effort to explain their pain. Even Cancer, was
known to form in some through repressed memories of incest in the body.
Scientists have studied related phenomenon such as people whose hands bleed in
certain religious settings. Presumably such people, called stigmatics, "are not
revealing unconscious memories of being crucified as young children, but rather
are dem

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