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  1. Feb 2016
    1. This article discusses the difference between and exact memory and partially remembering something that has happened in someones life. It also explains how there are different ways to remember situations, even traumatic ones, but with less of fear attached to that memory. I would use this article to help argue against using the drug in my other article to show their is other ways to tie in less emotions to a memory.

    2. “I want to disentangle painful emotion from the memory it is associated with,” she said. “Then somebody could recall a terrible trauma, like those my father obviously endured, without the terror that makes it so disabling. You would still have the memory, but not the overwhelming fear attached to it.

      This would be cool if it actually gets pulled off, but what if the person doesn't want to remember any part of it? The fear is apart of the memory, it's the feelings in the mind that was going on and that could be one reason why people remember such traumatic events.

    1. Overall, this article tells many different stories relating back to people's younger years. The memories most often remembered are traumatizing ones. The not so traumatizing or dramatic times in a persons memory are replaced and forgotten/ changed by what a person thinks what happend. I will be using this article for extra information and stories or my paper.

    2. I wondered if her memories were so sharp because these were all terrible events, especially compared with my presumably bland early years.

      I remember a lot of memories from my early ages, specifically ones when I was 2 and 4, and they were both traumatic also.

    3. ‘If you never use that memory, those synapses can be recruited for something different,’

      This is really interesting. Memories could be replaced if never used.

    4. You just hope your Jell-O – your memory – gets set before it leaks out through that tiny hole.’

      This is like in the other article it talked about how memory takes a couple hours and sometimes days to store

    1. This article discusses a drug that would help people forget a memory when they want. The drug is propranolol. The only problem is some people could abuse this drug and use it for less traumatic experiences just to completely forget about someone/something. I will be using this article as my argument for my paper.

    2. stop people from doing.

      It should be a prescription drug, that way not anyone could have it

    3. What if people used it simply because they didn't want to fixate over ex-girlfriends

      There would have to be some extent to whether the drug could be used. Not simple reasons.

    4. It's impossible to justify why a nine-year-old who watched his parents get murdered needs to remember precisely what that looked (and felt) like; I'd feed that theoretical kid a cereal bowl of propranolol. But the problem (of course) is that our society is traditionally terrible at judicious drug use

      There should be an exception for cases like these. Nobody should remember a sight like that with vivid images.

    5. Adrenaline makes us remember things.

      From the examples above, this makes a lot of sense. I never thought of it that way.

    6. adrenaline impacts memory.

      I did't know that adrenaline and memory had any correlation - that is interesting

    7. propranolol

      a synthetic compound that acts as a beta blocker and is used mainly in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.

    1. This article tells many examples on how somebody will know one thing and once they hear something else about that thing their memory starts believing the second option. It's kind of like how memories can be replaced (what another article talks about). I will use this article for extra information about memory.

    2. Memories that stick with us are tinged with emotion.

      this is in every article I've read so far

    3. memories can become contaminated with people remembering—sometimes quite vividly and confidently—events that never happened. Loftus has found that memories can be planted in someone’s mind if they are exposed to misinformation after an event,

      like hearing a rumor even if you know the truth

  2. Jan 2016
    1. Thehorseshavetighthidesandapple-sizedeyesthataresetonthesidesoftheirheads,likefish

      He makes the text very easy to visualize in my head what is going on.