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[The Theory of Mimind] The Psychology of Memory

Posted by Korea Institute of Psycho-Education(ip:)

Date 2021-05-17

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            Human memory is divided into facts and emotions.  Memory is generally perceived as the combination of facts and emotions. But, we normally remember facts. Emotions work independently and is integrated with facts during the perception process. Thus, we need to separate facts and emotions to clarify human memory.

             A fact is a continuous process of a certain incident. It is the same as a video clip. Lets say there was a car accident. The car accident includes certain facts about the car accident from beginning to end. A phenomenon is like one scene that is part of the whole fact and is similar to a photo. These related phenomena are accumulated and become a fact. In such a way, the whole process of a car accident is a fact. Our five sensory organs perceive a car accident, and then emotion gets stirred up and this emotion is related to this certain fact. When a car accident is recalled, one remembers facts and emotions together, but in reality one remembers facts, and emotion is generated in ones unconsciousness.

             Man and woman remember facts in the same way. This is already proved by the neuroscience by verifying that they are stored in the brain. Forgetfulness or losing memory is based on the work of brain cells. Thus, they will either remember or forget facts. If they do remember facts, we call this the memory of facts and it is applied to man and woman in the same way.

             The memory of facts works with the memory of emotions. This emotion is created by a fact within ones psychology. For a car accident, the facts of a car accident and the emotion regarding that car accident operate together. So, facts and emotions can be separated, but people think that they are perceived and remembered simultaneously.

             If we separate emotions from facts, we can see that they work differently. Therefore, emotion comes from the awareness of thoughts about certain external information or stored memory, and it is not a perceived emotion with the external information or stored information recognized by ones own psychology. Hence, emotion is created in one's own psychology.

             The psychology of man and woman operate differently. Emotion is created by the working of migenesThe migenes of man and woman are different, so the emotions that man and woman remember are very different. Facts are remembered or not in the same way for all human beings, but when it comes to emotion, man and woman remember it quite differently.

             Woman remembers negative feelings and cannot remember positive feelings whereas man can remember positive moods and cannot remember negative moods. This is all due to the different working of migenes of man and woman.

             If man remembers negative moods and cannot remember positive moods, what happens actually is not that he remembers negative moods, but that he mistakenly thinks that he remembers negative moods, which will lead to a psychological disorder. This psychological disorder of delusion will continue the state of negative moods without removing it.

             This kind of delusion of negative moods is a wrong perception and not an actual memory of moods.  This is called, the error of memory of emotion. In other word, there is a problem in remembering emotion. There are the error of mans memory of moods[1], the error of mans memory of negative moods[2], the error of mans memory of positive moods[3], the error of womans memory of feelings[4], the error of womans memory of negative feelings[5], and the error of womans memory of positive feelings[6]

             Human beings only remember emotions based on their experience, so experience influences ones psychology. Experience is divided into direct and indirect experience. Direct experience is ones own personal experience and indirect experience is obtained through conversations with others, reading books, or watching movies. These indirect experiences have nothing to do with oneself, but certain emotion is created within ones psychology.

             When it comes to study, when emotion is created based on circumstances and environments, the academic capacity is varied between man and woman depending on whether it is direct experience or non-direct experience. In case of a car accident, the way one experiences it impacts ones psychology differently depending on the gender and on whether is direct experience or indirect experience.

             Even if it is not direct experience, it affects one as if it was ones own experience. We call this external impact and this is also indirect experience. In 2014, when the ship Saewol sank, the whole nation experienced it indirectly and was wounded as if they were involved in the accident. Here, the people rescued from the ship, family members, people involved at the scene, and volunteers had their direct experience.

             Also, in case of violence, if one is the victim of violence, it can be a direct experience, and if one witnesses violence and as a result acquire the same emotion as the victim, then it is an indirect experience of violence. Ones own sexual experience can be a direct experience, but witnessing others sexual behaviour is an indirect experience. The prohibition of exposure to violence and sexuality to minors is to protect them from the detrimental impact through indirect experience. 

             Indirect experience can also create the same degree of emotion as direct experience does, and it can cause psychological disorders. In this process, woman remembers negative feelings, but man does not remember it, and therefore woman tends to have psychological problems but man tends to forget about it with indifference as time passes, and replaces it with other objects of fun and pleasure. Woman will suffer from the same impact through her indirect experience as through her direct experience. But, man remembers only the facts of his indirect experience and the sense of fun and pleasure from other objects, so as a result, man may identify violence and sexuality as fun and pleasure. The same psychological reaction takes place when applying it to crimes. Therefore, we can see the serious problems of current sex education and prevention education.

             The major cause behind this phenomenon is that the memory of facts and the memory of emotion are generated separately, and that man and woman have different memory of emotion. This principle of different memory of emotion between man and woman can be easily proved with its application to our daily life.




[1] The error of mans memory of moods is a phenomenon where man cannot remember negative moods but remembers positive moods.

[2] The error of mans memory of negative moods is a phenomenon where once man remembers negative emotion, all information is processed as negative moods.

[3] The error of mans memory of positive moods is when he remembers positive moods and even though there are many positive moods, only one positive mood operates in his psychology.

[4] The error of womans memory of feelings is a phenomenon where woman does not remember positive feelings but remembers negative feelings.

[5] The error of womans memory of negative feelings is when woman remembers negative feelings, and even if there are plenty of negative feelings,  only one negative mood operates in her psychology.

[6] The error of womans memory of positive feelings is a phenomenon when woman remembers positive feelings, all information she perceives is processed as positive feelings.



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