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Part I

Amnesia is the state of total or partial loss of memory from trauma. As evident from the

Chapters five and five and six of the book, “Discovering Psychology, Sixth Edition with DSM5

Update by Hockenbury”, the perspectives of the clinical and research psychologists is different

on uncovering the repressed memory. However, it can be supported that it is possible to cause

amnesia psychologically where the patient’s chances of recovering the old memories are

replaced by false memories when psychologists ask the patients suggestive questions (Loftus,

17). For instance, a therapist can ask some questions to the client in a manner that will create an

image in their mind that they were part of a scene. Since the patient has lost their memory, they

will answer the questions believing that the events occurred in their life, hence retain that as part

of their new memory.

Therefore, the client might create a false image of occurrence of events in the past and

assume that something happened while in the reality it did not occur. The research does no harm

to the abuse survivors. As far as the adult survivors might doubt the truth about their past, the

reality is that they can only access the recovered memory in their mind (Loftus, 23). Rather, it

can be argued that this is a good measure that therapists can use in preventing a victim from the

recovery of bad memories on their abuse.

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During the elementary schools, the teachers used to have some positive reinforcements,

particularly on discipline and excellence. The teacher would give some pens to the pupils whose

performance had improved which one would take home for the parents to see. Everyone worked

hard because it made the teachers and the parents happy. Negative reinforcement was done by

motivating indiscipline pupils where they were told the consequences of indiscipline is fail in

life. Most pupils changed because they thought failure is associated with evil and we feared evil.

Besides, there was negative punishment on those students who were undisciplined where the

teacher denied them the chance to go for the school trips with the rest students. This method

worked for us as everybody wanted to go out on trips for new adventures.

I have housetrained my dog on some tricks by operant conditioning in which I taught her

to sit and lift her paw when I mention “sit” and “high five” to her (Kelly, 20). Besides, I trained

her against defecating in the compound, and the dog defecates in the hole made near her cage. I

taught her on the tricks by positive reinforcing because I would give her a retreat once she

obeyed by command. I would repeat this for her until now that she does it freely.

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Surname 1 Name: Instructor: Institution: Date: Part I Amnesia is the state of total or partial loss of memory from trauma. As evident from the Chapters five and five and six of the book, “Discovering Psychology, Sixth Edition with DSM5 Update by Hockenbury”, the perspectives of the clinical and research psychologists is different on uncovering the repressed memory. However, it can be supported that it is possible to cause amnesia psychologically where the patient’s chances of recovering the old memories are replaced by false memories when psychologists ask the patients suggestive questions (Loftus, 17). For instance, a therapist can ask some questions to the client in a manner that will create an image in their mind that they were part of a scene. Since the patient has lost their memory, they will answer the questions believing that the events occurred in their life, hence retain t ...
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