And in spite of her amnesia, she was able to read and she, smartly if I may say, repeated the address to herself time and time again. There were many times she had felt lost and confused. After that, there were many different occasions where she’d completely forget who she was looking for (Nemo) or the sort of the situation she was in (like danger with the shark and the nearby bombs in the sea), or why she had a “gut feeling” she was supposed to do something (after being informed to swim through and not above for safety sake). Since the short-term memory lasts only between 10-15 seconds before it’s supposed to transfer this new knowledge into the long-term memory, Dory had completely forgotten by the end of that time duration. The second symptom, she had completely forgotten who Marlin was or where she was going or why which is the inability to retain new knowledge. She made up this idea that she knew where the boat was headed when, in fact, she didn’t have a clue. The first symptom here: false recollections. Marlin tries to remind her that she was showing him the way to the boat and she once again claimed she knew the way but Marlin stopped her and was told of her condition. In the movie, the first sign of her forgetfulness would be when she claimed she knew where the boat was headed and insisted that Nemo’s father Marlin follows her to find his son but then she suddenly thought Marlin was a stranger stalking behind her and she tries to escape. Sounds ridiculous and plain foolish but it’s true and a person with amnesia could be very much like Dory and her symptoms. It really varies on the person.īack to the film “Finding Nemo”, this character name Dory is a talking fish among the rest of all the talking fish in the sea and she was the key to finding Nemo in spite of her amnesia. People with amnesia could be able to read and write, and it is possible that this condition wouldn’t affect neither their intelligence nor their attention span. With amnesia, according to the Mayo Clinic website, the symptoms include confusion or disorientation, impairment to learn new information or to recall past events, and/or false recollections. Short-term memory holds information for 10-15 seconds and also transfers information into long-term memory, which can hold information indefinitely.” In the case of amnesia, the short-term memory is not doing its job to transfer the information into the long-term memory. In the textbook, it clearly states, “Short-term memory receives the output of the dectector. In order to gain new knowledge, the short-term memory would need to be functioning correctly. According to our textbook, amnesia is the loss of the ability to assimilate or retain new knowledge. Dory’s symptoms in this film were considered accurate for the condition of amnesia. Before you might think that it’s a bit childish to bring up this movie for a college course, let me assure you that there was even an article written about this film that was titled, “Finding Nemo ‘gets amnesia right’”. The only way I could make it more interesting enough to tolerate watch it yet again for the sake of my daughters and their need to spend more quality time with me, it became a need for me to actually analyze the movie from a psychologist’s perspective and Dory quickly became a favorite character of mine.Īmnesia can be a very complicated sort of condition and the film, “Finding Nemo” could shed some light on the issue for it to be better understood. After seeing this movie so many times, I’d lose my mind if I didn’t find a way to view this film differently. So when we went over short-term memory and amnesia in Chapter 4 under the topic of “Attention” and Chapter 6 under “Long-Term Memory: Structure”, the film “Finding Nemo” was the first thing that came to mind and that is what I choose to talk about for my second blog in this course. Now that I’m a mother, I watch movies like Rise of the Guardians, Monster High series, and Monsters Inc over and over again. Before I came a mother of 2 girls, the movies I’d watch would include films like Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Jones.
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