CASE SCENARIO ESSAY: TOPIC 1
After a motor vehicle accident Tom was left with an acquired brain injury with damage to the frontal lobe and the left temporal lobe. As a result Tom has been experiencing many difficulties, in particular with his memory. Memory refers to the mental capacity to retain information and convert it into a form that can be stored and retrieved at a later time. Storing and retrieving memories involves passing information from one stage to the next and then retrieving that information from long-term memory. (Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2012, p.261) Memory is an integral part of human survival and without it, learning new skills, such as the ones required by Tom to regain his loss of function, could never prevail.
Memory has been of interest to psychologists since the late nineteenth century (Burton et al. 2012, p.260) and as a result, numerous models have emerged to help explain the processes involved in the formation of a memory. In modern times, it is widely accepted that there are three major components of memory; sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory.
Sensory memory is considered the first stage in the formation of a new memory. It requires an individual to pay attention to a stimulus. Sperling (1960) stated (As cited in Burton et al., 2012) “sensory registers hold information about a perceived stimulus for approximately half a second after the stimulus disappears, allowing a mental representation to retain in memory briefly for further processing.” Although all five senses can be retained and used to form a memory, auditory and visual senses are significantly noted in this stage of memory. The term iconic storage is the name given to the short period of time visual informati...
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also is lost after death according to the memory criterion because memories are unable to be caused in the right way after death. Any reproduction of memories, by God or anyone else, would not be caused in the right way. Even if memories were able to be transported to another entity, the psychological elements of identity are not able to be. Consequently, the memory/psychological criterion does not allow for survival after death. Thus the objection of survival after death does not sufficiently reject
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