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    depth I did the most recent time I watched it. The type of short-term memory loss Dory has is Anterograde amnesia‚ which causes Dory to not be able to encode new memories such as the name of Marlin’s son‚ Nemo‚ or why Marlin follows her in the beginning of the movie. Dory does not tell us how she came to have anterograde amnesia‚ but when researching this amnesia I found that‚ “ This type of amnesia could be caused by a traumatic head injury which could cause permanent damage‚ or a more temporary cause

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    Psychology Notes – Memory Flow of information in memory: Encoding  Storage  Retrieval Key terms: Encoding: changing information so that it can be stored Storage: holding information in the memory system Retrieval: recovering information from storage Multi-store: the idea that information passes through a series of memory stores Sensory store: holds information received from the senses for a very short period of time Short-term store: holds approximately seven chunks of information for

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    Cumberland County College October 27‚ 20011 2 Introduction Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce)‚ is an insurance claims investigator who witnessed his wife’s rape and murder and was hit in the head trying to intervene. He now suffers from anterograde amnesia and can only remember things in his life prior to the night of his wife’s murder. When the police did their investigation on his wife’s murder‚ they did not find any clues supporting Leonard’s testimony about that night prompting Leonard to do his

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    café one morning. They hit it off and agree to meet in the café the next morning. The following day‚ however‚ Lucy seems not to remember anything about Henry and their meeting. The café owner pulls Henry aside and explains that Lucy suffers from amnesia (called ’Goldfield Syndrome’ in the movie) as a result of a car accident a year earlier. Her condition has left her with no memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present. At the beginning of each day‚ she loses all memory of the

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    Muhammad Syed Professor Adams Psychology-1 06 April 2015 Mystifying Cases of Dissociative Fugue Disorder In a figure of extraordinary cases‚ certain individuals fail to recall their self-identity. Correspondingly‚ some individuals forget about whom they are‚ while frequently developing these inclinations to interchange and travel across the country. What symptoms could cause something like that to happen o certain individuals? Dissociative Fugue Disorder‚ once known as psychogenic fugue‚ is a precise

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    Technology (MIT) in order to fix his epilepsy; however‚ instead he ended up possessing amnesia. The procedure caused damage to the hippocampus and the amygdala. His frontal lobe received to drilled holes and parts were suctioned out.The unintentional damage‚ which became secretive information‚ was an unreported lesion to the frontal lobe of Molaison’s brain. Due to the controversial damage and unforeseen amnesia caused by the experimental procedure‚ was this too far in the name of science? Chapter

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    because he went to go help his wife who was raped and murdered in their bathroom. The altercation with the murderer in his house caused his head trauma which resulted into him losing his short term memory. I believe his disorder is called Anterograde amnesia which causes people to lack in maintaining relationships‚ learning new things‚ and has no perception of time since they have no short term memory. This deficiently causes many to have a hard time coping with

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    Rotten Tomatoes says the movie “Finding Dory” is “Funny‚ poignant‚ and thought-provoking‚ Finding Dory delivers a beautifully animated adventure that adds another entertaining chapter to its predecessor’s classic story.” “Finding Dory” is a fantastic movie that people of all types would love. The movie is about a blue fish that goes on adventure with her clown fish‚ friends Marlin and his son Nemo to find Dories parents. The movie starts with Dory helping Mr. Ray’s class learn about migration. The

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    The screenplay "Finding Nemo" is the exemplifying father and son story about Marlin and his son Nemo‚ who struggle to see eye to eye when it comes to Nemo’s safety. Finding Nemo is well organized and achieves the three act structure beautifully‚ along with the meaningful message it portrays. There are several major conflicts introduced in the screenplay‚ Marlin being the typical overprotective father‚ gets Nemo caught by scuba divers and released into a fish tank. Nemo join’s a fish gang to help

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    Kimberly Prete March 16‚ 2014Finding Nemo reflection When first watching this movie it comes across as a computer animated film about a bunch of a fish. Looking at it from a psychological standpoint it reveals that it is more complex than one may think. This comes from the realization that all of the main characters seem to suffer from some sort of psychological or physical disorder. The movie represents a heart-warming coming of age story that is about a small clown fish with an injured fin‚ Nemo

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