The Upside to Depression | jennifer lynn kuhlmann merck

jennifer lynn kuhlmann merck

Life on Purpose

Skip to content

Home
About

← Prior to the age of five, children appear to experience time in a different manner. They are perfectly capable of ‘forgetting’ events that they experienced a minute ago, as well as their mental state when the experience occurred. They seem to think associatively, closer perhaps to the hypnagogic state that one drifts into just before falling asleep, than to one that is ordered around a timeline with a past, present, and future. Gopnik attempts to penetrate what this different form of consciousness is like. She describes a ‘false belief’ experiment in which children see a closed candy box that, in fact, is filled with pencils: ‘The children are understandably both surprised and disappointed by this discovery. But then we asked what they thought was in the box when they first saw it. Although they had discovered the truth with great surprise only moments before, they still said that they had always known the box was full of pencils. They had entirely forgotten their earlier false belief.’ This is why young children are so perilously suggestible, and their testimony, in most cases, should be inadmissible in court. They have excellent detailed memories when they are cued to remember a specific event with a leading question, but free recall is alien to them because it is dependent on an internal consciousness that they don’t yet fully possess.

Do our organs have memories? →

The Upside to Depression

Posted on February 26, 2010 by jennifer

The Upside to Depression

I am intrigued by this perspective on depression. I believe I have personally found it to be true and have also observed it in others. I have a little card on a bulletin board in my office that reads: “People with mental illness enrich our lives.” So true.

Advertisement

Share this:

Email
Facebook
Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

This entry was posted in link. Bookmark the permalink.

← Prior to the age of five, children appear to experience time in a different manner. They are perfectly capable of ‘forgetting’ events that they experienced a minute ago, as well as their mental state when the experience occurred. They seem to think associatively, closer perhaps to the hypnagogic state that one drifts into just before falling asleep, than to one that is ordered around a timeline with a past, present, and future. Gopnik attempts to penetrate what this different form of consciousness is like. She describes a ‘false belief’ experiment in which children see a closed candy box that, in fact, is filled with pencils: ‘The children are understandably both surprised and disappointed by this discovery. But then we asked what they thought was in the box when they first saw it. Although they had discovered the truth with great surprise only moments before, they still said that they had always known the box was full of pencils. They had entirely forgotten their earlier false belief.’ This is why young children are so perilously suggestible, and their testimony, in most cases, should be inadmissible in court. They have excellent detailed memories when they are cued to remember a specific event with a leading question, but free recall is alien to them because it is dependent on an internal consciousness that they don’t yet fully possess.

Do our organs have memories? →

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.

Δ

"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference." - Jimmy Carter
Email Subscription

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 1,126 other subscribers
Search for:
Recent Posts
Archives
- March 2018
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- February 2013
- January 2013
- March 2012
- February 2012
- December 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
Categories
- link
- quote
- regular
- Uncategorized
- video
Meta

What am I talking about?
- adolescence
- Advent
- All Souls
- Anglican
- attachment parenting
- Bipolar disorder
- blogging
- books
- Breast cancer
- Canada
- Cancer
- Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
- charts
- childhood
- children
- Christianity
- Christmas
- college
- Common Core
- computers
- CSL
- Daniel Ellsberg
- David Wilcox
- DCIS
- Donald Miller
- Easter
- editorial calendar
- education
- Emmanuel
- England
- Facebook
- faith
- family
- free range parenting
- friendship
- God
- Google Reader
- Health
- Henry Kissinger
- Jesse Tree
- Jesus
- John Chrysostom
- Lent
- maps
- Mental health
- Michigan
- mothering
- Ontario
- organization
- parenting
- Pentagon Papers
- quotes
- saints
- sanity
- Santa Claus
- school
- Sears
- Social media
- Sofia Cavalletti
- spirituality
- St. Julian of Norwich
- St. Nicholas
- Suicide
- Suicide Prevention
- Tamoxifen
- teaching
- theology
- traditions
- travel
- Twitter
- United States
- Veterans Day
- Vietnam War
- women in ministry
- Writing

jennifer lynn kuhlmann merck

Start a Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Follow Following
- jennifer lynn kuhlmann merck
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

%d bloggers like this: