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Flashbulb Memories 1 Week 3 Assignment: Flashbulb Memories Student Name Chamberlain College of Nursing PSYC110 Professor Karen Berneburg November 14th, 2021 Flashbulb Memories 2 Brown and Kulik were m... ajor theorists in 1977. In the article titled Seared in Our Memories by Bridgett Law, she states that they came up with the special-mechanism hypothesis, which proposes the presence of a specific biological memory mechanism that, when activated by an event that exceeds critical levels of surprise and consequentiality, provides a permanent record of the details and circumstances of the experience (Law, 2011). Although flashbulb memories are durable, Brown and Kulik argued that they are not always accessible from long-term memory. According to the theory of a specific flashbulb-memory mechanism, flashbulb memories have distinct properties from those created by "regular" memory systems. The detailed, correct, vivid, and forget-resistant images formed by the unique mechanism are detailed, accurate, and colorful. Since Brown and Kulik first created the phrase, most of these early aspects of flashbulb memory have been contested. Over time, four models of flashbulb memories have arisen to . [Show More]
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