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This is a very interesting question. From the point of view of psychology (understanding how our psyche works), events with a positive color are remembered more often, thereby displacing negative experiences. But we must understand that nothing disappears without a trace and negative experiences are simply “encapsulated” often in the unconscious, and when a person finds himself in a similar situation that caused unpleasant sensations, feelings and emotions in him, a trigger is triggered that triggers similar experiences (based on past experience). The human psyche is designed in such a way that, thanks to protective mechanisms, it brings positive memories to the fore, in order to preserve mental and psychological health. The mechanism of forgetting or “erasing” negative experiences is included in the work.
To answer this question, let's take a little tour of the past. When a family in the Stone Age was playing a game and a saber-toothed tiger suddenly jumped out of ambush, the brain immediately switched from calm mode to stressful mode so that the family could escape. We are genetically predisposed to pay more attention to bad news than to good news, and they are also better remembered. Therefore, sometimes only one negative event is enough to leave an indelible mark on a person's memory.
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There are minor deviations from the “average”, given the stability of the human psyche (some negative events can be so negative that the brain simply blocks memories – that is, it is not possible to get rid of them).traumatic amnesia) and the degree of emotional outburst (99% of girls who married for love remember the wedding). But! Negative memories carry the information “if you do this, you will get that”, and pleasant ones only amuse us with how good it was when we did “so and so”. In the first case – the experience necessary for survival, in the other-sometimes a lucky combination of circumstances.
From personal experience, I can say that I will never forget my first kiss with my beloved girl (positive emotions), just like the first refusal of my beloved girl (not to be confused with “falling in love”, negative emotions). At the same time, when I fell while skiing and cut my leg, I practically did not remember the end of that day – only fragments – the house, I take off my pants, the next scene is the operating room, the surgeon gives an injection and mends his knee, saying that I will be ataman, the next scene is the morning of the next day.
Events associated with negative emotions are better remembered. Somewhere I have heard (or seen) that before a person was branded and branded in order to remember something. That is, in the literal sense ,they were “burned with iron” and at the same time they said the information necessary for memorizing. A person memorized it without any difficulty. For a long time and accurately. I think it was in a movie somewhere. Maybe fiction…
In general, it is true that a negative emotion is a shock. Yes, sometimes the brain blocks shock information out of a sense of self-preservation. But again, this can happen in different ways. Either for the first time, or for life, or such information is not blocked at all. It's different for everyone.
Indeed, if you take situations from life, negative events are remembered much better than positive ones. From the point of view of the brain device, I dare not say how it works. But this is a fact. It does not exclude the possibility that positive events are not remembered at all and eventually disappear from memory altogether. But the fact remains that the number of negative events exceeds the number of positive events (which we remember)
I think not so much positive or negative, but rather incomplete. From the literature, I read about someone's experience (I don't remember the name of the psychologist) of conducting an experiment in which different groups of people were given the same task, but if the first group was allowed to complete it, then the second group was interrupted at a certain moment without warning. As a rule, after a period of time, the group of people who were stopped and not allowed to finish remembered the details of the event in which they participated better than those who completed the task to the end. Even in psychology, there is such a term “unfinished gestalt”, when a person constantly remembers what he failed to finish once, and this memory constantly haunts him. For example, if a relative has died, they can't forgive themselves for a long time because they didn't have time to say important words to them, and this lasts for quite a long time. With the help of certain techniques and a professional psychologist, a person learns to mentally say goodbye to the past, that is, “completes the gestalt”. If the treatment is successful, the memory leaves him alone. From this we can conclude that it is necessary to treat memories of negative rather than positive emotions.
Apparently, negative-for most people, the first memories of themselves are associated with negative emotions (for me, too). If there are relatives who found the Great Patriotic War and the German occupation as children, you can ask them about the war – they can easily tell you about their life during it, even if they were pre-school children then.
this is related to how much the event is interesting (for you) +or – is not particularly important. Events are better remembered from your attention on it. If you are not interested in the event or it seems simple (as if it is similar to the ones you have already experienced). no attention (or not enough) then they are remembered poorly.
Negative ones.
A basic human instinct — the instinct of self-preservation-forces the brain to remember negative events. So, in theory, you will quickly avoid a similar danger.
Of course, this concept has changed, and today it is an overdue loan or school debts, for example.
I agree that with negative ones. When we experience pain, fear, resentment, jealousy, and so on, we produce adrenaline. The level of adrenaline caused in a person's negative emotions is much higher than in positive ones. Thus, we remember what we need to approach with caution, the very important role here is played by the instinct of self-preservation.
The subconscious mind does not understand the categories “positive” and”negative”. How events are remembered depends on how they relate to existing neural connections, as well as on how strong the impression of the experience was.
I'll answer the question with a question. What do you have in your memory �will be stored most quickly and what you will remember until the end of time �: a compliment �to you from a stranger on the street or how you hit your fingers with a hammer while hammering a nail �or a quarrel? In general, negative emotions are more stable, better remembered, and according to one version often become a trigger for cancer, which is why psychotherapists teach people not to be offended .
I disagree with other commentators: the brain often displaces negative emotions and events, especially if they occurred in childhood. The child does not have the life experience to analyze what is happening and over time simply forgets what happened to him. Then in adulthood, these memories can come back, especially if something very terrible happened – for example, domestic violence.
With strong emotions.
It's just that a person is designed in such a way that they perceive negative experiences more actively, because they threaten their existence.
In addition, most people's lives are rife with negative emotions.: (
With negative results. They tend to shock a person more than positive ones. Well, that is, it is difficult to surprise a person with a positive event in general, but it is easy to surprise a person with a negative one. If you've ever had a close relative die, for example, you know what I mean. No positive event can change this.
Here, by the way, you can draw a good analogy with paints: it is always very difficult to paint over black with white, and you will always get a daub. Especially in tattoos, for example, or in drawings with watercolors or gouache. But it's easy to paint over white with black.