Three Sins Of Memory In The Alibi
The Alibi is a serial podcast discussing about a murder happened in 1999 of a high school girl, Hae Min Lee, and the person charged guilty, Adnan Syed. The serial host Sarah Koenig looks deep into this murder case, and there were a lot of psychological issues happening; one of which was the sins of memory in memory failures. This essay shows how three sins of memory: transience, suggestibility, and bias, applied in the interrogation that happened for this murder case.
Without even a minute into the podcast, the serial host Sarah Koenig, hints what is coming up soon— a sin of memory. The first sin of memory to be heard in this audio serial is transience, which is basically forgetting what happened over time. Koenig asked bunch of teenagers what …show more content…
I was in school probably. I would be in school. Actually, I think I worked that day. No, yeah, I worked that day and I went to school.” When Koenig says, “Actually on second thought…”, Sam replies, “I only went to school that day.” All in all, this right here is confusion, but it is also a sin of memory called suggestibility. Suggestibility is when you ask or say something that sounds like you expect a certain response; hence, that response is given. Another sin of memory that occurred in this podcast was bias. Bias means to adjust your memory into something that fits to your present knowledge. In this questioning, Sam’s friend, Elliot, first said he went to the theater to watch 22 Jump Street with Sam and other friends. When Koenig mentioned that Sam said he was at work, Elliot doubted his answer, and said, “It wasn’t that night then.” In conclusion, out of seven sins of memory, there were at least three sins of memory (transience, suggestibility, and bias) in the podcast. These sins of memory is very natural, but can also occur because of nervousness, and self-doubt. The three sins of memory were recognized in only three minutes of the audio serial, and only in the interrogation of three teenagers, which definitely shows that there is a high possibility of all seven sins of memory in cases like
Without even a minute into the podcast, the serial host Sarah Koenig, hints what is coming up soon— a sin of memory. The first sin of memory to be heard in this audio serial is transience, which is basically forgetting what happened over time. Koenig asked bunch of teenagers what …show more content…
I was in school probably. I would be in school. Actually, I think I worked that day. No, yeah, I worked that day and I went to school.” When Koenig says, “Actually on second thought…”, Sam replies, “I only went to school that day.” All in all, this right here is confusion, but it is also a sin of memory called suggestibility. Suggestibility is when you ask or say something that sounds like you expect a certain response; hence, that response is given. Another sin of memory that occurred in this podcast was bias. Bias means to adjust your memory into something that fits to your present knowledge. In this questioning, Sam’s friend, Elliot, first said he went to the theater to watch 22 Jump Street with Sam and other friends. When Koenig mentioned that Sam said he was at work, Elliot doubted his answer, and said, “It wasn’t that night then.” In conclusion, out of seven sins of memory, there were at least three sins of memory (transience, suggestibility, and bias) in the podcast. These sins of memory is very natural, but can also occur because of nervousness, and self-doubt. The three sins of memory were recognized in only three minutes of the audio serial, and only in the interrogation of three teenagers, which definitely shows that there is a high possibility of all seven sins of memory in cases like