Reppressed memory

Dynamics of Repressed Memory
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The children’s response to trauma is very different from that of the adults. Childhood trauma is believed to cause problems in the storage of memory and even retrieval. According to the clinicians, repressed memory can be retrieved through dissociation. Dissociation does not, therefore, mean a loss of consciousness but unavailability for extraction for quite some time (Thomas & Loftus, 2002). Severe child abuse forms are likely to cause memory disturbances or dissociation according to the clinicians. Dissociation according to the clinicians who work with trauma victims is a person’s way of escaping from the pain of memory. This paper aims to discuss the dynamics of repressed memories.
Elizabeth tells a tragic story of Steve Titus who was accused to have committed a rape just because his physical description matched that of the real rapist. She focuses on what made the memory of the victim to shifting from uncertain to sure. Elizabeth explores how misinformation can influence the repressed memory. Also, she tries to examine how past experiences of the victims affects their judgment thus creating false memories (Thomas & Loftus, 2002).
In this article “Creating False Memories” Elizabeth aims to examine how repressed memories create false memories. According to Elizabeth human perception is not always perfect. Sometimes they tend to see things that might not be present. Loftus explains how false memory forms. She describes it comes about due to information that was not encoded correctly (Thomas & Loftus, 2002).

Repressed memory might cause a person to witness about an accident that they lack an explicit idea of what happened. Also, I think repressed memory cannot be depended on in a court of law because reporting events that occurred in the past can pose a significant challenge because they never got a chance to witness everything that happened (Thomas & Loftus, 2002).
In conclusion, repressed memory and experiences are always in competition with new evidence. Sometimes the repressed memory can affect the further information, and this makes it difficult to recall information that was stored previously. Thus repressed memory cannot be depended on in a court of law to make a judgment. This is as a result of the many loopholes that our minds possess.
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Thomas, A. K., & Loftus, E. F. (2002). Creating bizarre false memories through imagination. Memory & Cognition, 30(3), 423-431.