flashbulb memories

What will be an ideal response?


-emotional memories that seem so vivid that people appear to recount them in remarkable, even photographic detail
-Neisser and March showed that these memories are false with Challenger recollections, which they called phantom flashbulb memory
-fade at the same rate as regular memories
-seem to be similar to regular memories just more intense

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