PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sleep Deprivation

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Most traumatic events are well remembered many years. Consolidation promoted by the conditions that accompany bodily arousal. Extreme arousal present in a traumatic event. Some cases where patients have little or no recall or their experience. Can be accompanied by sleep deprivation, head injuries, substance abuse. Experience of stress cascade of biological reactions. Repression push painful memories out of awareness. Painful memories won"t be consciously available but will still exist in a person"s long-term storage and can be recovered and made conscious again under certain circumstances. Memories are lost because the person refused to discuss these memories for many years. Recovery the person is at last willing to talk about them. Maybe the result of retrieval failure a mechanism that can hide memories for periods of time, only to have them reemerge once a suitable retrieval cue is available. Some recovered memories may be false memories. Many recovered memories emerge with the assistance of a therapist.