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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 demonstrating a  psychogenic abnormality that springs from their conscious
fixation on the suffering of Christ(Copeland Publishing 1989).  Similarly, it is
possible  the idea, that "one was sexually abused might increase the frequency
of some physical symptoms, regardless of whether or not the abuse really
occurred"(Peter Bedricks Publishing 1994).
     This view of memory has two elements: (1) the accuracy element and (2)
the causal element. The reason why this memory is questionable is not because
people don't have unpleasant or painful experiences they would rather forget,
nor is it claiming that children often experience both wonderful and brutal
things for which they have no right or wrong sense for and are incapable of
understanding them, much less relating it to others.  It is questionable because,
(a) one is having problems of functioning as a healthy human being and (b) one
remembers being abused as a child therefore, (A) one was abused as a child and
(B) the childhood abuse is the cause of one's adulthood problems. There is no
evidence that supports the claim that we remember everything that we experience.
In fact, there is plenty of evidence to support the claim that it is impossible
for us to even recall to all the elements of any given experience.  There is no
evidence to support the claim that all memories of experiences happened as they
remembered to have happened or that they have even happened at all. We can never
even say how accurate our memories really are.  Finally, "the connection between
abuse and health or beha...

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