Your ordinary memory may be absolutely terrible, but (for whatever the reason) your "emotional" capture of LIFE-CHANGING past events is probably SUPER. And that's interesting!!! This quiz, of course, is designed only as a guidepost, but if you wish to understand MORE about "flashbulb" memories (a genuine psychological phenomenon), then please read Flashbulb Memories (Essays in Cognitive Psychology), by Martin A. Conway. Or...Affect and Accuracy in Recall: Studies of "Flashbulb" Memories (Emory Symposia in Cognition, No. 4).

The Amazon.com description reads: "Recollections of unexpected and emotional events (called "flashbulb" memories) have long been the subject of theoretical speculation..."



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