about short term memory loss that related to the movie the 50 first dates.

1. 50 First Dates SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS

2. PSYCHOLOGY BASIS
– SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS: usually happens
on people who suffered a brain injuries, or
medical condition, which makes them loss
their recently memories. They can still
remember their long-term memories that are
in the past (before injuries), but cannot
remember things happen in a day, within 20
minutes or less.

3. MEDIA BASIS
About The Movie
The veterinarian Henry Roth, who lives in a Hawaiian
island, afraid of commitment until he meet Lucy
Whitmore, a beautiful girl who suffers from short-term
memory loss everyday from a car accident. They
meet each other in a local café, and then go on a
date. Henry falls in love with Lucy, but there is one
problem when she awakens in every morning, she
can't remember anything that happened yesterday.
Henry must devise a plan to meet Lucy everyday and
try to get her to fall in love with him again and again.

4. Connection
– Everyday Lucy wakes up, she thinks it was her
dad birthday, the day she got accidents, and
keeps repeating the same day a year ago (go
to the café shop first thing in the morning).
• That is the symptom of people who is suffering
things happened within the short time like few
days, or even few minutes.

5. Connection
– Lucy’s family and everybody in the island keep it as a secret about Lucy. They
even celebrate her dad birthday, watch the same show, and do the same things
everyday with her. Because the doctor said it will be the part of her life forever.

6. Connection
– And more than that, after knowing about Lucy’s story, Henry decides to repeat
greeting Lucy every day with a hope that she will one day put him in her long-
term memory.
• By doing that Henry done the method called rehearsal.

7. Connection
– After Lucy and Henry first night together, she
freaks out to see Henry, as a stranger, in her
bed in the next morning, which is caused by
her memory loss.

8. Connection
– She wouldn’t believe Henry that they have met each
other before and think that he is totally a liar until
she found out that was true, and her life been a lie
whole entire time by people she loves.
– She left Henry and of course she couldn’t remember
anything about him, but somehow his pictures keep
appearing in her head.
• Which is mean Lucy’s memory is putting Henry in
her long-term memory.

9. Connection
– At the end they have a family together, but Lucy still having her memory loss
everyday. And Henry decided to video tape everything happen to their lives and
let her watch it every morning she wakes up, which give her the memory about
her life and what she has been through.

10. MY TAKE – Throughout the movie, there were a lot of emotional. I
can see that how terrible it is to have a psychological
problem. But instead of quitting there are a lot of way
to cure it or make things turn better for the person.
– Overall, that is such a great job relating the movie and
psychology.

11. Reference
– https://www.livescience.com/42891- short-term-memory-loss.html
– I use the information in the class book and lectures with some information on
the internet through google.com.