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This term refers to vivid, detailed memories of the moment when a person first hears about a surprising or emotionally significant event.
Flashbulb memories are often associated with events of this type, such as the assassination of President Kennedy or the September 11 attacks.
This event was the focus of Neisser & Harsch's study of flashbulb memories.
What is the Challenger space shuttle disaster?
Yuille & Cutshall conducted their study using real eyewitnesses of this type of event.
What is a real-life crime (or shooting)?
In their 1977 study, Brown and Kulik coined this term to describe vivid, detailed memories of emotionally significant events.
What is flashbulb memory?
These two psychologists first proposed the concept of flashbulb memories in 1977.
Who are Brown and Kulik?
Flashbulb memory theory predicts a stronger memory for events with these two types of consequences: personal or ___.
Neisser & Harsch challenged the concept of flashbulb memories by showing that these types of memories were not resistant to this.
What is memory distortion?
Yullie & Cutshall found this about memory.
What is highly reliable?
Brown and Kulik found that people were more likely to have flashbulb memories of these types of events, such as the assassination of President Kennedy.
What are public or historical events?
According to flashbulb memory theory, this factor, besides surprise, is critical for a memory to be stored with vivid detail.
What is emotional significance?
Studies on flashbulb memory theory challenge the idea that these types of memories are resistant to this natural process.
What is forgetting?
The results of Neisser & Harsch's study support the idea that flashbulb memories may be similar to these more ordinary memories.
What are everyday memories?
What is case study or field experiment?
According to Brown and Kulik’s study, this personal factor increased the likelihood of forming flashbulb memories.
What is emotional involvement or personal relevance?
This characteristic makes flashbulb memories seem more accurate, even though they may be just as susceptible to distortion as other memories.
What is vividness?
People typically experience flashbulb memories for this aspect of the event, including where they were, who they were with, and how they felt.
What are peripheral details?
Neisser & Harsch used this method to evaluate memory distortion, comparing initial responses with those from the later questionnaire.
What is longitudinal comparison?
This was one of the key questions asked in the procedure of the study
What is "was there a broken headlight/yellow car panel"?
What is emotional involvement or personal relevance?
What is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
his process, where individuals recall flashbulb memories and talk about them, can lead to memory distortions over time.
What is rehearsal?
Flashbulb memories can be affected by this bias, where individuals believe their memories are more accurate than they actually are.
What is confidence bias?
Neisser & Harsch's findings suggested that flashbulb memories may rely more on this rather than accurate recall.
What is narrative construction or reconstruction?
Yullie & Cutshall were aiming to recreate this study.
Brown and Kulik's study suggested that flashbulb memories are more likely to form when people experience this combination of two emotions.
What are surprise and emotional arousal?