Flashbulb Memory Research Paper

Flashbulb memory is a detailed and vivid memory of a specific event, in most cases the event is extremely important. This type of memory allows us the remember specific events in close to full detail this causes people to feel confident when they recall a specific event. The biggest flaw with flasbulb memory is that because people tend to feel overconfident about the event they add a false detail withought realizing it this results in the flashbulb memory becoming a false memory, a memory that never occured, to the particular event they tried to recall the information from the event.

In the example, Jim has a flashbulb memory about his parents winning the lottery. Jim says he is able to recall every detail from the event no matter how small