GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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flashbulb memory
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iconic memory
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echoic memory
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working memory
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brown and Kulik believed that although flashbulb memories are permanent, they are not always accessible from long term memory. The hypothesis of a special flashbulb-memory mechanism holds that flashbulb memories have special characteristics that are different from those produced by “ordinary” memory mechanisms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Storage of flashbulb memories involves the amygdala in the limbic system. The amygdala is a part of the brain that his highly involved in emotion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Long-Term Memory. Long-term memory refers to unlimited storage information to be maintained for long periods, even for life. There are two types of long-term memory: declarative or explicit memory and non-declarative or implicit memory. Explicit memory refers to information that can be consciously evoked.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the reasons that flashbulb memories are so strong is because of the emotional arousal caused by hearing the news, which makes the memory become etched into the mind much stronger than other memories might be.