Background
What is the title of the study?
What is "Flashbulb memories of the challenger explosion"
How many participants participated in the first round?
What is "106 introductory psychology students"
confidence had no correlation with accuracy.
True or false?
The study was cheap, quick and efficient
True or false?
True
Flashbulb memory can be used in criminal investigations
True or false?
True.
What was the study designed for?
What is "To test the flashbulb memory theory"
How many participants participated in the second round?
44 participants
How many didn't remember their questionnaires?
33 participants
Name a weakness
Marius decides :D
Is there ethical considerations?
True or false
True - although the ethnicity or cultural background of the participants was not revealed (due to confidentiality), the experiment is considered culturally biased as it took place in a WEIRD country, implying that the same findings may not apply to foreign cultures
What is "happens because of a special brain mechanism that connects emotions with memory"
What method was used?
What is "Questionnaire (retrospective study)"
How many remembered their questionnaire?
What is "only 11/44 participants remembered that they had filled out the questionnaire before."
Name a strength
Marius decides
the memories of the participants may have been reconstructed or been influenced by schemas
True or false?
True
Fill out the gaps
They form special memories that are more _____, _____, _____, and _____ than regular memories.
What is vivid, detailed, accurate, and long-lasting
How many years did it take until the 44 participants was called back in?
What is 2.5 year
How many gave the same details?
What is 10%
Is there gender bias in the study?
Although not specified, it can be assumed that both men and women participated in the experiment, thus suggesting that there is no gender bias
Is the study reliable?
No - the memories of the participants may have been reconstructed or been influenced by schemas, lowering the reliability of their responses as external information (overt rehearsal) may have had a greater impact than individual recall (covert rehearsal)
Who created the study?
What is "Neisser and Harsch"
What did they test?
What is "To test whether the participants could remember what they had previously written. participants then saw their original reports from the first questionnaire."
How many had distorted memories ?
what is 40% had distorted memories
Was the study ethical?
the study was ethical because there was informed consent, the participants were not deceived, they were debriefed, their identities remained confidential, they could withdraw, and they were protected from mental (mostly) and physical harm
How does this study demonstrate the aspects of flashbulb memory?
as only elements of surprise consequentiality and reception context were displayed by the results of the study, this study does not completely support the theory; as the findings imply that the memories of the participants was not long-lasting, accurate, distinct from everyday memories, or influenced by a special neural mechanism, the study does not support the existence of flashbulb memories according the the theory suggested by Brown and Kulik in 1977