Selective forgetting is the memory loss of events related to psychological inducement. Let me talk to you about selective forgetting.
The human brain is composed of about 65.438+04 billion cells, weighing about 654.38+0400 grams, and the capacity of storing information is equivalent to 654.38+00,000 libraries with 65.438+00 million books, which is a huge capacity. But not every experience can be remembered, and not many people have the ability to never forget it. Forgetting is a normal state that accompanies people to grow up. Many people are eager to have the function of selective forgetting, so as to forget those sad or sad things just to find inner peace.
Forgetting can exist in all kinds of morbid or normal people. Selective forgetting refers to a person who forgets things he doesn't want to remember or things, people or things he avoids after being stimulated by the outside world or having a brain collision. Forgetting content is highly selected to meet special emotional needs. For example, it is puzzling to completely forget the course of a major event and deny the fact that it happened.
For centuries, researchers have been discussing whether our brains can selectively forget the past.
Psychoanalyst sigmund freud's memory inhibition theory holds that we can consciously forget the bad memories that we don't want to keep, and one can push the memory aside and forget it. In a sense, selective forgetting after trauma is beneficial to the parties, but it is not the fundamental solution to the problem.
A study by the University of Oregon in the United States shows that if we want to forget or not think of something, forget or suppress unpleasant memories in our hearts, we may really forget the memories we don't want to keep (this study published in Nature helps to explain why people lose their memories after being hit by serious events).
Researchers are trying to prove that people can forget the memories they want to forget even if they are constantly reminded.
They asked volunteers to do a word collocation exercise. During the exercise, the researchers showed participants cards with a pair of words written on them, such as "torture" and "cockroach". Suffering? And then what? Rats? Wait a minute. Then the subjects were asked to forget the second word. After a while, the researchers showed the subjects the first word on all the cards. This should help the latter remember the second word.
But the experimental results show that the subjects can't remember the second word anyway.
For example, when they see the word "torture" again, they don't remember the word "cockroach" related to it at all. Even if researchers offer a reward and are willing to give money to those who remember the second word, no one will be rewarded.
Dr. Anderson, who is in charge of the study, said that the experimental results can help scientists further understand how the brain suppresses the memory of unpleasant events or relationships.
This research helps to understand why those who have been physically assaulted or sexually assaulted can't remember the experience of being assaulted, even if they often see the perpetrators. Dr. Anderson said that the research results can explain why we can forget unnecessary memories, such as where we parked our car in the morning, but we usually don't remember where we parked our car yesterday.
After psychotherapy such as hypnotic suggestion, this forgetfulness symptom can disappear completely.
The amnesia caused by the above psychological factors can be completely recovered, which is caused by the temporary inhibition of cerebral cortex function, and there is no organic damage. However, perhaps few people are willing to recall things that make them miserable.
In other words, in many cases, people's selective forgetting is not to fundamentally delete a certain memory, but to hide those memories in the subconscious, or to isolate them with strategies, so that you can't recall that memory in most cases. In some special circumstances (such as experiencing similar situations), memories may reappear.
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