• A flashbulb memory is a vivid, long-lasting memory about a surprising or shocking event. The term flashbulb memory suggests the surprise, indiscriminate...
    75 KB (9,502 words) - 12:24, 11 June 2025
  • Flashbulb may refer to: Flashbulb (photography), lightbulb used in flash photography Flashbulb memory, a vivid memory of an event The Flashbulb, a pseudonym...
    222 bytes (58 words) - 21:09, 4 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Forgetting curve
    suggest that memories of shocking events such as the Kennedy Assassination or 9/11 are vividly imprinted in memory (flashbulb memory). Others have compared...
    13 KB (1,581 words) - 20:49, 6 July 2025
  • during the years. Flashbulb memories Flashbulb memories are critical autobiographical memories about a major event. Episodic memories can be stored in...
    37 KB (4,572 words) - 11:34, 20 June 2025
  • "Flashbulb memories". Cognition. 5: 73–99. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(77)90018-X. S2CID 53195074. Markham AN, ed. (8 November 2001). "Flashbulb Memory". In...
    47 KB (6,234 words) - 18:55, 28 July 2025
  • Ulric Neisser (category Memory researchers)
    attraction to baseball alerted him to an idea that he would later call a "flashbulb memory". Neisser attended Harvard University in the late 1940s, graduating...
    23 KB (2,609 words) - 09:41, 8 April 2025
  • Fading affect bias (category Memory biases)
    as flashbulb memory recall, strengthens the argument for this phenomenon being universal. With flashbulb memories the study found a bias in memory immersion...
    27 KB (3,404 words) - 22:29, 23 May 2025
  • Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical...
    62 KB (7,197 words) - 16:03, 27 July 2025
  • testimony. In moments of intense shock, flashbulb memories can be formed. Flashbulb memories are a vivid memory of how a person learned about a shocking...
    47 KB (6,294 words) - 07:26, 29 July 2025
  • explicit memory (declarative memory) and implicit memory (non-declarative memory). Explicit memory is broken down into episodic and semantic memory, while...
    55 KB (7,012 words) - 21:04, 22 July 2025
  • working memory. Other suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is...
    114 KB (14,452 words) - 12:01, 20 July 2025
  • Memory consolidation is a category of processes that stabilize a memory trace after its initial acquisition. A memory trace is a change in the nervous...
    62 KB (7,382 words) - 16:57, 23 July 2025
  • type of episodic memory in that there is more detail and sensory qualities to a personal-event memory. Flashbulb Memories are memories for emotionally...
    14 KB (1,792 words) - 16:50, 21 May 2025
  • as flashbulb memories. These are instances in which memories of powerful emotional events are more highly detailed and enduring than regular memories (e...
    63 KB (7,822 words) - 06:02, 2 June 2025
  • such as visual imagery. Concepts such as "flashbulb memories", which are powerful autobiographical memories that we often relive, are often built on vivid...
    16 KB (1,791 words) - 11:03, 11 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Memory
    of flashbulb memories. Anderson (1976) divides long-term memory into declarative (explicit) and procedural (implicit) memories. Declarative memory requires...
    138 KB (16,931 words) - 05:13, 2 August 2025
  • vivid memories of personal significance, these memories appear to be more accurate than everyday memories. These memories have been termed flashbulb memories...
    67 KB (8,137 words) - 03:10, 16 July 2025
  • memory syndrome (FMS) was a proposed "pattern of beliefs and behaviors" in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by false memories...
    25 KB (2,798 words) - 23:26, 19 June 2025
  • Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
    22 KB (2,603 words) - 01:21, 25 May 2025
  • In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...
    69 KB (8,246 words) - 23:53, 25 July 2025
  • Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for...
    44 KB (5,696 words) - 15:29, 22 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Spatial memory
    In cognitive psychology and neuroscience, spatial memory is a form of memory responsible for the recording and recovery of information needed to plan a...
    95 KB (11,499 words) - 03:34, 21 July 2025
  • chance that a false memory is successfully implanted. False memories are also related to flashbulb memories, which are memories of one's circumstances...
    43 KB (5,779 words) - 04:03, 12 June 2025
  • Now Print! (category Memory)
    in 1967, is an attempt to explain the neurobiology underlying the flashbulb memory phenomenon. The theory argues that a special mechanism exists in the...
    5 KB (696 words) - 13:36, 7 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mnemonic
    Mnemonic (redirect from Memory aid)
    (/nəˈmɒnɪk/ nə-MON-ik), memory trick or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating...
    37 KB (4,586 words) - 22:31, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Yerkes–Dodson law
    of humans Emotion and memory – Critical factors contributing to the emotional enhancement effect on human memory Flashbulb memory – Type of vivid, enduring...
    7 KB (903 words) - 08:19, 25 April 2025
  • Collective memory is the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity...
    45 KB (5,523 words) - 14:52, 18 April 2025
  • Amnesia (redirect from Memory loss)
    memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can...
    53 KB (6,764 words) - 13:58, 22 July 2025
  • Memory erasure is the selective artificial removal of memories or associations from the mind. Memory erasure has been shown to be possible in some experimental...
    28 KB (3,380 words) - 21:59, 15 July 2025
  • S2CID 13888599. McCloskey M, Wible C, Cohen N (1988). "Is there a special Flashbulb-Memory mechanism?" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 117...
    62 KB (7,800 words) - 18:43, 17 July 2025