Films and Psychoreality

Question 1

How was memory dysfunction portrayed in movies such as ground hog day and fifty first dates?

Answer 1

Groundhog day 1993 = uses repetition to predict the future - not portrayed as positive. Although humans like familiarity can lead to depression. Problem with inhabiting long term memory - activation causes recollective experience that is uncontrollable.

Fifty first dates = Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, somewhat accurate, loss of consciousness, damage to front temporal lobe, loses autobiographical but maintains procedural knowledge.

Question 2

What is a solution to memory loss conditions?

Answer 2

Sense cam - links with scenes of fifty first dates.

Question 3

What does memory loss show?

Answer 3

That different information such as procedural information is stored in different places.

Question 4

What did Marin 2011 find?

Answer 4

The administration of metyrapone reduces the strength of emotional memories over a period of time - Link to eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

Question 5

What is amnesiac syndrome?

Answer 5

Incapacity to learn new material - anterograde combined with loss of prior material (retrograde).

Question 6

What did the Squire, Stark and Clark study show in 2004?

Answer 6

The ability to retain material over days - functional amnesia.

Question 7

What did Soeter and Kind find in 2013?

Answer 7

Spider phobia could be reduced following memory reactivate.

Question 8

What did James say about memory?

Answer 8

“If we remembered everything we would be as ill as if we remembered nothing.