PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Importance Driven Emotional Reactions Model indicates that personal consequences determine intensity of emotional reactions. The consequence of an event is a critical variable in the formation and maintenance of a flashbulb memory. These propositions were based on flashbulb memories of the Marmara earthquake.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is meant by the importance-driven model? The importance drive model goes further than the original theory that proposed that surprise is responsible for the creation of flashbulb memories. The theory argues that it is personal relevance that makes the memory different.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does cultural research seem to indicate about FBM? Kulkofsky has found that collectivistic cultures have fewer personalized flashbulb memories than individualistic cultures. In the case that the memory is based on a national tragedy, the rate of FBMs was the same.

Detailed explanation-4: -A flashbulb memory is an accurate and exceptionally vivid long-lasting memory for the circumstances surrounding learning about a dramatic event. Flashbulb Memories are memories that are affected by our emotional state.