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What Are 50 First Dates Related To Psychology

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The movie I had chosen was 50 First Dates which was made in 2004. I had chosen this movie because it was a great example of someone suffering from a psychological disorder. One of the main characters whose name is Lucy deal with Short-term memory lost. Short-term memory is defined in the textbook on page 152, that it is the type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays; also called working memory.
In the movie, Lucy does the same things every day. A year ago, on a Sunday it was October 13th, Lucy dad’s birthday, when Lucy and her dad was traveling up North to pick a pineapple and a cow was in the middle of the road and the father tried to dodge it and hit a tree and Lucy had a serious head injury from the accident and that is what caused her to have Short-term memory lost. The mental illness was discussed out through the movie in many ways because Lucy was not aware that she even has Short-term memory lost. Lucy cannot retain any new information. …show more content…

When the officer told her that it was not October 13th she begin to get frustrated and ran to the newspaper stand and saw that it was a whole year later and it was the month of May. Lucy drove home upset and Lucy dad and brother showed her the newspaper article of the accident, pictures of her in the hospital, and told her that she spent three months in the hospital. Lucy was in disbelief so she wanted confirmation from her doctor. That day her doctor introduced her to 10 second Tom, 10 second Tom had a similar head injury and he can only remember things for 10 seconds. According to the text on page 153, in short term memory the image tends to fade significantly after 10 to 12 seconds if it is not repeated or

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