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Flashbulb memories for the space shuttle disaster: A tale of two theories
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The results indicated that flashbulb memories of people's discovery of shocking news are different from their memories about the event itself, and emotion and rehearsal interact over time such that either factor is sufficient to generateflashbulb discovery memories if measured within a short time after the event.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 1988-07-01. It has received 240 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flashbulb memory & Recall test.read more
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Stress, memory and the amygdala
TL;DR: The unique features of stress-induced plasticity in the amygdala, in association with changes in other brain regions, could have long-term consequences for cognitive performance and pathological anxiety exhibited in people with affective disorders.
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Psychopathology and early experience: a reappraisal of retrospective reports.
TL;DR: The evidence reviewed suggests that claims concerning the general unreliability of retrospective reports are exaggerated and that there is little reason to link psychiatric status with less reliable or less valid recall of early experiences.
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How Emotion Shapes Behavior: Feedback, Anticipation, and Reflection, Rather Than Direct Causation
TL;DR: The authors develop a theory of emotion as a feedback system whose influence on behavior is typically indirect, and justify replacing the direct causation model with the feedback model to justify replacing a large body of empirical findings.
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Suggestibility of the child witness: A historical review and synthesis.
Stephen J. Ceci,Maggie Bruck +1 more
TL;DR: There are reliable age differences in suggestibility but that even very young children are capable of recalling much that is forensically relevant, and a synthesis of this research posits three "families" of factors--cognitive, social, and biological--that must be considered if one is to understand seemingly contradictory interpretations of the findings.
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Remembering pictures: pleasure and arousal in memory
TL;DR: The results suggest that whereas both the dimensions of pleasantness and arousal are processed at initial encoding, long-term memory performance is mainly affected by arousal.
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Psychological status of the script concept.
TL;DR: The authors suggest that there has been growing interest within several subfields of psychology in the schematic nature of mental representations of real-world objects and events, and present a simple form of schema is the "script", embodying knowledge of stereotyped event sequences.
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Flashbulb memories of the assassination attempt on President Reagan
TL;DR: The results suggest that intensity of initial affective reactions, rather than perceived consequentiality or rehearsal, is a primary determinant of flashback memories, and a flashback mechanism is proposed to account for affectively cued recall of episodic memories.