Thought Suppression

welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your host
Kristine and today concluding our
segment on memory dr. Angela Chen will
share with us the psychology of thought
suppression slot suppression is just a
very complicated term by saying well try
not to remember something now imagine if
I tell you okay don’t think of a white
bear don’t don’t now if I leave you
alone I guess that white bear thoughts
is going to pop up once in a while which
if you didn’t encounter me today most
likely you will ever think of a white
bear unless you are a researcher in
white bears or you just watch the
documentary so what what is what kind of
importance does this have in our daily
life well essentially if you want to
remember something try to just say
something positive if you make an error
well it’s best to say well that’s what
we have to do to correct it rather than
saying don’t for example you always
forget to turn off the stove the idea is
well it’s not very useful to say don’t
forget to turn off the stove rather say
turn off the stove so use positive
instruction and that would be very
helpful so that can be applied when we
teach our children well instead of
saying don’t scream perhaps well I don’t
know if you ask them to scream louder or
just be quiet