Affective memory

The term ‘affective memory’ was intended to include emotional and sensory phenomena, and to differentiate them from intellectual, volitional or rational ones.

It is basic in functional perspective. Pain and pleasure are information that control behavior.

Boleslavsky divided affective memory into two categories: analytic memory, and the memory of feeling. Analytic memory is trained and developed by exercise involving imaginary objects.

The second category that Boleslavsky described was the memory of feeling, which can be called emotional memory.

The term affective memory was taken by Stanislavsky from a work by the French psychologist Theodule Ribot, The Psychology of the Emotions.

Strasberg in turn defined ‘affective memory’ as a broad category containing both ‘sense’ memory and ‘emotional’ memory. He states, ‘pertains specifically to the more intense reactions of an emotional response’.
Affective memory

Emotional recall

Emotional recall is a psychological trick, the way most actor use it. The person think of something and it calls back an emotional memory. Emotional recall creates changes in the musculature that are sufficiently visible for the camera to pickup.

The emotion should really come out do what happens in the scene. The process of emotional recall is sensory. The person describe the even through five senses, in the first person, as though it is happening.

The person remember certain experiences which one moved, which stimulated an emotion inside, which had deep meaning for the himself at the time. Emotional recall may be triggered by a sensory experience but emotions come from a much wider and more complex range of experience than physical sensation.

This experience can be happy one. It can be a sad one. It can be a complex experience that produced mixed emotions.
Emotional recall

Creative imagination

There is a constant need of imagination. Synthetic imagination is the manipulation of effects. Creative imagination is causal that produce effects.

Creative imagination is more than mere memory. It takes the elements of the past as reproduced by memory and rearranges them.

Creative imagination plays a vital role in human daily life. Creative imagination is not inborn trait and it can be acquired with constant exercise.

The creative imagination galvanizing the mind propels it on a quest that transforms the already being constituted reality. It activates the minds radius of propensities and a fulgurating variation of virtualities.

Creative imagination is an essential aspect for achieving success. One needs to practice it incessantly in the same way they do anything else. Imagination can be sharpened largely if one practices creative thinking.
Creative imagination

The concept of sensory memory

Traditionally, memory researchers have distinguished between two types of transient memories: sensory memories and short term memories.

Sensory memories are faithful, veridical records of initiating stimuli. It is a memory system for storing sensory information for a very short period of time, ranging from a fraction of a second to as long as three or four seconds.

Visual, auditory, and other memory stimuli constantly strike human sensory receptors, forming impressions body briefly hold in sensory memory in a kind of temporary storing device called a sensory register.

The sensory impression then disappears and is replaced by the next one.

Sensory memory keeps the person from being overwhelmed by too many incoming stimuli because any sensory information of not attend to will vanish in seconds. Most stimuli that register sensory memory are lost before they reach short – or long term memory.
The concept of sensory memory