How Does 50 First Dates Relate To Psychology

BACKGROUND: Ms. Copeland is a 58-year-old left handed white female who was referred to the Hillcrest memory Diagnostic Center by the emergency room physician for evaluation of memory problems and difficulties in functioning including suicidal ideations.

Prior to diagnosis the individual may show signs of forgetfulness due to an incline in memory functions. They may even show signs of a decline in reasoning and communication

Memory is defined as “The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.” Memories are units of information that have impacted one’s life and are stored in the brain for years. In some cases, dramatic events may not let the brain register every single detail about a situation. This is much like Anton’s case of the winter of 1945 of the novel The Assault by Harry Mulisch. The events of that winter affected him like no other would. The loss of his mother, father and brother and the burning of his house left an impact on him but the events were so grave his brain did not allow him to remember the smaller

Psychology can be applied to everyday life in many ways. The three main ways Psychology applies to my life is through motivation and emotion, Stress and health and Psychological therapies. These topics of psychology are the ones that best describe my life. When most people think of psychology they think of therapists and psychological disorders. Psychology is much more than that and applies to everyone’s life in some form.

In Psychology 101, you learn about a personal fable; something that I have not lost. I have always wanted to change the world that I was destined for greatness and teaching elementary school students gives me that power. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory and it is not a normal part of aging, “Although the greatest risk factor is increasing age” (Alzheimer’s Association). Even though our memory begins to deteriorate when we are growing older we don’t necessarily forget we get the “tip of the tongue” effect where we are ale to recollect our memories unlike those with Alzheimer’s.

Memories are crucial to everything we do every day. Without memories we would not know who is important to us or what we enjoy doing. We use our memories continuously, even when we do not realize that we are. In her memoir Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan loses much of her episodic memory from the time period in which she battled Anti-NDMA-receptor encephalitis. Because of this, she loses a portion of her identity, and struggles for a period of time while attempting to find herself again.

In the movie 50 First Dates one of the main characters suffers from the severe condition of anterograde amnesia. The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date. Henry falls in love with Lucy, but there is one problem when she awakens in the morning, she can't remember him or anything that happened that day. Henry must devise a plan to meet Lucy everyday and try to get her to fall in love with him again and again.

The film gave an interesting take on artificial selective amnesia. I don’t necessarily agree with the use of the procedure but I can see way in which it could be potentially useful. However, I don’t see it as becoming reality due to the complexity of the brain and the level of difficulty it would most likely be to map out where exactly certain memories would be and remove those memories without damaging other memories or parts of the brain. The way the director of this film used the blue, green, red and orange colors of Clementine’s hair was brilliant. It helped the viewer to keep track of at what point a certain scene was taking place. The way that Joel and Clementine change each other throughout their relationship was also interesting. Clementine transforms Joel into a more adventurous person and then Joel makes Clementine feel happier. I would definitely recommend this film to anyone in psychology to give them a different aspect of selective amnesia, as it also shows the importance of memories and the roles they play even if one doesn’t necessarily realize that it is playing a part in how they act or

Anterograde amnesia refers to a memory deficit from brain injury that prevents patients to store new informations in their short term memories. The patients show normal memories for events that occurred before the injury but has severely impaired ability to recall information about events that occurred after the incident. Anterograde amnesia is reflected in the movie “50 first dates” through the main character, Lucy Whitmore, whose memory lasts only a day because her memory stopped on the day of car accident. (additional description) The movie, “50 first dates,” contains valid depiction of anterograde amnesia yet it also contains some dramatic points that is far from reality.

Social Influence occurs every day in many different setting, in this case it’s in the movie ‘Mean Girls.’ This movie takes place in a high school setting which consists of various different main characters, they are Kady and ‘The Plastics’ which consist of Regina, Gretchen and Karen. There are two main concepts that relate to many scenes throughout this movie, they are a Groupthink and Deindividuation.

Losing one’s memory can be a mysterious affliction, and the causes can be quite complex. Severe memory loss is introduced in author Oliver Sacks’ collection of stories The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and lectures given by professor Jim Davies can help with understanding of some of the concepts introduced in the book. In chapter two, The Lost Mariner, the patient Jimmie is suffering from aspects of both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, which Davies explained as loss of memory of events or facts learned before an event (the event that caused the amnesia), and loss of ability to create new memories after the event, respectively. In more detail, and in relation to our book (here, the target example), retrograde amnesia would consist of any loss of memory that happened prior to an event, such as an injury or onset of disease in Jimmie’s case. Dr. Davies’ explanation of retrograde amnesia helps to understand Jimmie’s case, where in the year 1975 he is unable to recall any events after 1945. As well, the explanation of anterograde amnesia as including symptoms such as inability to form new memories, learn information or tasks, or to recall the recent past is useful when applied to Jimmie’s experience of not being able to recall events that happened even a few minutes prior. Jimmie’s suffering from both retro and anterograde amnesia, as explained by Sacks, results from Korsakov’s syndrome – a destruction of memory caused by alcoholic

When a person has something that may have cause physical symptoms or a traumatic event happen to them in their life they can continue to re-experience these things. "Unfortunately, some people re-experience the memories of traumatizing events for years after the fact. It's common to experience a biological response when these memories play out, including heart palpitations and shortness of breath.(Cancio, 2011)” When a person has a memory that they want to forget they are actually shutting down the region of the brain that would bring it from coming into consciousness. But one side effect would be that whatever was tied to the memory you forgot the traces of it you wouldn't be able to remember as easily. The important things are encoded so they are read more easily and effectively then things that you want to remember every once in awhile. After a person stops revisiting a memory it becomes harder and harder for them to remember the little things of it. When someone forgets where they put something it is simply because your brain was distracted while the encoding process should have taken place. For example when someone had “forgotten” where they put their eyeglasses they may have not forgotten where it was but they may have never actually stored the place of the glasses in their memories. Emotional events are often remembered better because they have a greater

The movie 50 First Dates is about a tragic head injury and its effects on memory that takes place in Hawaii. In the movie, the main character, Lucy, experiences a terrible car accident that involved hitting a tree and resulted in short-term memory loss. Lucy had her long-term memory and was able to recall everything prior to the actual accident. However, Lucy was unable to retain and store new memories after a night’s sleep. Each morning Lucy would wake up and think it was Sunday, October 13th, her father’s birthday. Lucy’s father and brother worked hard each night in order to undo any changes for the next day.

Case 1 tells the story of Henry Molaison (HM), a man with no memory. He lost his memory due to the operation of suctioned out the hippocampus to treat his epileptic seizures. At that time, it was not known yet that the hippocampus was essential for making memories. After operation, his seizures were significantly reduced, but Henry suffered a global amnesia. Owen et al. (2007) describes patients with global amnesia as perceptive and attentive but with a total loss of short-term memory and some trouble accessing memories of the recent past. Henry could not learn new things as he quickly forgot everything that he had learned. He could learn at a subconscious level only.