In a study investigation flashbulb memories for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hirst and his colleagues found that:

a) almost nothing was forgotten in participants' reports of how they had heard about the event.
b) most of the forgetting that occurred came between years 2 and 3 of the three-year period.
c) confidence decreased over the three year interval as much as memory did.
d) the factors influencing forgetting were different for event memories and flashbulb memories


Answer: d

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