Meeshali Patel
Mr. Brennan
AP Psychology
19 August 2012
AP Psychology Essay
How essential is memory to us? Why is this term highly verifying to people in the world? Memory is a being’s power to remember things and retain information from the past. Human beings are encountered by this process of remembrance for eternity- throughout their lifetime. It is a key element for an individual, which doesn’t have an authentic origin. Memories can be portrayed in many unique ways, such as emotionally, spiritually or mentally. A person may have memories of dead loved ones, childhood; life experiences etc, there is no closing stage to the various types of memories, a being might stumble upon. However, memories can also come across our brain as …show more content…

The memory is altered in the absence of the original stimulus, which is why it becomes less about what we remember and more about us. Therefore, based on this fact, and due to Proust’s story about the Madeleine, the only objective memory, the one “true” to the original taste of madeleine, is the one memory you will never know, it will remain a mystery.
Science has advanced, which is why now, we know the actual reason- the molecular reason behind the changes in memory. Brain has prions, which can turn themselves on and off. Prions, holds the key to changing our scientific view of memory. Moreover, CPEB prions-an element that binds protein, are able to change their shapes with relative ease, creating or erasing a memory. Our memory remains impossible to understand, however, the CPEB molecule (if it’s definitely true) is the synaptic detail that persists out of time, which may be the cause in changing memory. As a result, due to this fact, we as humans often think of unsystematic things, which comes unexpectedly, even when were completely conscious. Memory, affects us in an essential way, because memory obeys nothing but itself, and as Proust believed “As long as we are alive, our memories remain wonderfully changeable.” It’s a way to describe ourselves, as