EMOTIONAL FACOTORS IN MEMORY
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- EMOTIONAL FACTORS IN MEMORY
- FLASHBULB MEMORY- a long lasting and vivid memory of a specific event and the context in which it occured. The event is important and emotionally significant. Term flash bulb is used as if a photographic image of the event and setting has been encoded, the memory is detailed and accurate
- BROWN & KULIK 1977 proposed the idea
- flashbulb memoried are dramatic, unexpected and shocking.
- World Trade Centre, Kennedy, Fall of Berlin
- People renember; -Where they were - what they were doing -how they were informed - how they reacted - how others around them reacted
- EVIDENCE FOR
- Brown & Kulik (1982) study showed that black Americans had a lot more flashbulb memories about the death Martin Luther King compared to white Americans
- EVIDENCE AGAINST
- NEISSER (1988)- compared ps recall of challenger disaster after 2 days and 2 years. Found all accounts had changed over time, and some were 'wildly inaccurate'
- PLATANIA & HERTKORN (1998) - ivestigated death of Pricess Diana, measuring accuracy and confidence of recal over 10 weeks. They compared the death with memory of everyday event
- REPRESSION - this is a defence mechanism, what happens is that memorie creating great anxiety are kept out of concious awareness in order to protect the individual. Motivated forgetting.
- FREUDIAN idea that forgetting happens fo a reason, painful memories are forced out of consciousess
- EVIDENCE FOR
- LEVINGER & CLARK (1961) foud that ps had poorer recall of emotionally negative workds,eg.fight, fear
- after dely higher recal found
- EVENT SPECIFIC AMNESIA- ciminals cant renember crimes
- deliberate ? influence of drugs or alcohol
- WILLIAMS (1994) 129 Girls admitted to hospital due to sexual asult, when interviewd 17 years later over half couldnt recall origonal event
- biased sample, unwilling to talk, invation of privacy
- LEVINGER & CLARK (1961) foud that ps had poorer recall of emotionally negative workds,eg.fight, fear
- hard to test, therefore cannot accept or reject idea
- DREEAMS
- FLASHBULB MEMORY- a long lasting and vivid memory of a specific event and the context in which it occured. The event is important and emotionally significant. Term flash bulb is used as if a photographic image of the event and setting has been encoded, the memory is detailed and accurate
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