https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear Expository writing en-us 2018-11-02 03:08:18 UTC 2018-11-28 11:46:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pumpkin.png zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/300789565 Selective amnesia, as a response to fear, can cause confusion, depression and social inabilities.]]> 2018-11-06 01:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/300789565 zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/303558233 Have you ever seen any tv drama character suffering from headaches and confused about his or her lost memory? It usually turned out that the character experienced a traumatic event when he was little, either a kidnap or a witness of a suicide. Notwithstanding the fear he had been through, the character forgot the event right after the startle. This is a common response to fear called selective amnesia. All people experience selective amnesia in their lives. Previous work by Professor Michael Anderson at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, showed that humans possess the ability to actively forget distracting memories, which improves the efficiency of the memory. However, selective amnesia, as a response to fear, can result in anxiety, false memory, and social inability]]> 2018-11-13 03:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/303558233 zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308086763 To start with, amnesia puts us in confusion. There are some common circumstances in which we get confused. Sometimes during a conversation, we suddenly get stuck because we can't tell the name of the latest movie or a person we've known for years. When taking an exam, we may find ourselves unable to spell the word we studied the other day. In these cases, we have no idea why we forget such things that we don't even put effort into memorizing. We keep thinking about what possibly leads to this, attempting to recall the moment we first got informed. In other words, we are confused.]]> 2018-11-27 01:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308086763 zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308706855 2018-11-28 11:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308706855 zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308713298 2018-11-28 11:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308713298 zzxcandice https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308717105 The amount of forgetting increases with the number of attempts to exclude the unwanted memory. He says: "Amazingly, this type of forgetting is more likely to occur when people are continuously confronted with reminders of the memory they are trying to avoid. This is contrary to intuition, which says that seeing reminders a lot ought to make your memory better. When reminders are inescapable, people must learn to adapt their internal thought patterns whenever they confront the reminder if they are to have any hope of avoiding the unwanted memory."]]> 2018-11-28 11:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zzxcandice/responses_to_fear/wish/308717105