Flash Memory
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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...