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This study examined whether flashbulb memories for the 9/11 terrorist attacks are more accurate than memories for ordinary events.
What is Talarico & Rubin’s (2003) Flashbulb Memory Study.
This principle states that pleasant items are generally processed and remembered more accurately than unpleasant or neutral items.
What is the Pollyanna principle?
This term describes being excessively anxious in social situations.
What is social phobia?
If you are in a happy mood while studying for an exam, you are more likely to recall information that matches that mood during the test. This phenomenon explains why.
What is mood congruence?
In this study, participants watched 15-minute violent or non-violent video clips with neutral commercials inserted, then were tested on brand recognition and recall of the commercials.
What is Bushman’s (1998) study on violent media and memory for commercials?
This effect refers to the tendency for unpleasant memories to fade in emotional intensity more than pleasant memories over time.
What is the positivity effect?
In this disorder, individuals repeatedly re-experience a traumatic event through intrusive memories or flashbacks.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Years after a breakup, someone remembers the relationship as “not that bad” and less painful than it felt at the time. This change reflects what emotional memory effect?
What is the positivity effect?
This study found that positive and negative stimuli were recognized about equally well, neutral stimuli were remembered least accurately, and background details were remembered best for neutral images.
What is Waring & Kensinger’s (2011) study on emotional versus neutral stimulus recognition and background memory?
If a person is in a sad mood and more easily recalls other sad memories rather than happy ones, this is an example of this memory phenomenon.
What is mood congruence?
This disorder is characterized by at least six months of intense, long-lasting anxiety and excessive worry.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A person who experienced a serious car accident repeatedly and has intrusive memories and vivid re-experiencing of the event months later has this condition.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This study found that positive and negative stimuli were recognized about equally well, neutral stimuli were remembered least accurately, and background details were remembered best for neutral images.
What is Waring & Kensinger’s (2011) study on emotional versus neutral stimulus recognition and background memory?
After hearing shocking news, someone vividly remembers where they were, who they were with, and what they were doing. However, later research shows the details may not be fully accurate. This is an example of this type of memory.
What is a flashbulb memory?
According to research, high-anxious and low-anxious individuals tend to perform similarly on implicit and recognition memory tasks, but differ significantly on this type of memory test.
What is a recall test?
After attending a long event where both positive and negative things happened, a person later remembers mostly the fun moments and compliments, but forgets many of the minor annoyances. This tendency reflects what principle of emotional memory?
What is the Pollyanna principle?
This flashbulb memory study comparing 9/11 to ordinary events was conducted in this year.
What is 2003?
TThe study by Talarico and Rubin (2003), which found that although participants were highly confident in their memories of 9/11, the consistency of those memories declined over time at a rate similar to ordinary memories, challenged the accuracy of this type of memory.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Research shows that high-anxious individuals are more likely than low-anxious individuals to recall what type of words?
What are negative or emotionally arousing words?
Commercials shown during violent television programs are remembered less accurately than commercials shown during this type of programming.
What are non-violent programs?