Mark Travers, Ph.d, is an American psychologist who writes about psycho-educational topics such as happiness, relationships, personality, and life meaning. He holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Colorado Boulder.
We can learn a lot more about fundamental aspects of psychology from movies than what you may think—about life, love and even the workings of the mind. In this sense, films can be powerful storytellers; they can shape our worldviews and, sometimes, even impart valuable wisdom and knowledge. However, not all the lessons we take away from Hollywood are accurate, as not all films are created equally.
While some do indeed provide genuine insights into human psychology, others are built on complete misconceptions. How many of the psychological concepts we’ve learned from the silver screen are based on reality, and how many are pure fiction? Here’s two movies that you likely know and love that are, to put it bluntly, based on absolute psychological hogwash.
These memories are visualized in a dazzling and organized manner. They are stored neatly in a designated part of Riley’s brain, arranged in endless rows according to their emotional valency—whether joyful, sad or otherwise. They’re depicted as shelf-stable over time; they can be accessed with ease whenever necessary, and can be lost entirely just as easily.
“When we retrieve a memory, we reconstruct it from those component pieces,” she clarifies. This means that we can’t simply pluck a memory off of a cognitive shelf. Rather, we rebuild them from the pieces we store within our neural systems—seeing it in our mind’s eye, hearing it in our mind’s ear and feeling its associated emotions all over again.
Throughout the film, Shelby makes it abundantly clear that his inability to form new memories is the result of short-term memory loss. When asked if he suffers from amnesia, he corrects the assumption by saying, “It’s different.” He elaborates, “I have nomemory. I know who I am and all about myself, but since my injury, I can’t make any new memories. Everything fades. If we talk for too long, I’ll forget how we started.
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