How do we remember and why do we forget?
ok, it sounds like a song, but it is really your discussion question straight from the heart of chapter 5 (memory). As you grapple with the material in this chapter, please be guided by the following questions:
1. If a person is in an accident and has some sort of brain damage affecting memory, would it be possible to relearn previously learned information—and even learn it more quickly? Are there examples of this? Are memories ever really gone, or are they simply forgotten?
2. Should the criminal justice system put as much emphasis as it does on eyewitness testimony? What are some possible circumstances that could influence eyewitnesses to say they saw something they might not really have seen?
3. Have you ever walked into a room and could not remember why you went there? How do you retrieve that memory?
4. Why does it seem we remember more negative events than positive?
5. What would life be like if you did not remember?
Q1. If a person is in an accident and has some sort of brain damage affecting memory, would it be possible to relearn previously learned information—and even learn it more quickly? Are there examples of this? Are memories ever really gone, or are they simply forgotten?
It is possible for someone who has been involved in an accident and forgotten everything to remember the things they knew before they got into such an accident. This kind of a person can in fact learn more quickly than another person who has never been introduced to such information beforehand. It is untrue to think that memories really go away. Memories only get forgotten but they are deep in the head of an individual. When a memory…
