The Importance Of Memory

Do you trust you brain when it comes to remembering event or information ? If you do trust you brain I would be careful of how much you trust the information your memory gives you. Memory is refered to as being able to retain information in your brain and then retriving it to explain it to other person. In Chapter 8 in my psycology book talks about how memory works and how we learn information and organize it in our brain. The chapter states the diffrent variety of memory and what each memory is associated with. The chapter explain the common mistakes our brain makes and why it makes those mistakes. The Gazette newspaper report called "Pensioner cleared of raping girl who had false memory syndrome" talks about a girls remembering in extensive

You have to gather the information store it in your brain and then reciting the information to someone else. There are diffrent ways that allow you to remember information easier like associating it to already known information or using chunking or mnemonics. Chapter 8 also states how there is diffrent type of memories like working memory that focuses on what you think and long term memory that stores information to be remembered for a long time. A persons brain is far from perfect especially when it comes to storing memory in your mind. Memory is not stored like a movie it is broken into pieces and stored in diffrent sections in our brain. The brain storing information like this leads to people not being able to retrieve memories or getting similar memories mixed up. If a persons mind get damage by an accident this may result in anterograde amnesia and not be able to remember anything after the incident or retro amnesia where you can remember anything before the

Mennell had never had any physical contact with this girl and had only gone to the farm once, yet he was accussed of raping and threathing the girl by cutting open a cat to terrify her to keep silence. In the newspaper mennell said "he was an animal lover who found the allegations unbelievable and horrible". This proves that Mennell would not kill a cat if he was an animal lover to silence the girl, but instead would have done something else to silence her. The girl had false memory syndrome which means that she could have been convinced that the event took place when in reality it might have not. The girl didnt report the rape until 20 years after it had happened and when she retold the event it always changed. According to McCarthy "A lot of thing came out in therapy and the jury have to consider if those are reliable memories or false memories". McCarthy is suggesting that the girl could have been manipulated into thinking she was raped by their family or psycaotrist. The girl could have also have gotten information mixed up with other experiences she had over the last 20 years that could have created an unreliable information. The newspaper stated that "the woman told nobody at all for 20 years and only revealed her allegations in dribs and drabs during extensive therapy. This means that she had 20 years of experience to