Explain How Flashbulb Memories Differ From Other Memories

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a) Define memory, and b) explain how flashbulb memories differ from other memories.

Memory is the learning of an individual that continues to exists overtime. It is the information that is obtained, stored, and gained from the surroundings and experience of an individual, which helps people to learn new skills and abilities where they are able to collect the information to their memory where it is gathered. However, the flashbulb memories differ from other memories because it is the memories that are connected to emotionally significant moments and events of an individual providing a clear vivid image so that the person is able to remember that moment or time. Thus, in this memory the emotions that are surrounded by an event that is …show more content…
Things that happen with our awareness, which is automatic processing, develops implicit memories where the important information are not discovered or processed in the memory, which makes the person feel lost. This type of memory is mostly unconscious and includes procedural memory. However, the explicit memories are the memories of an individual that appears in their consciousness and this memory can be separated into specific events, which is the episodic memory and the semantic memory, which is the information that is associated with the surroundings. It is associated with the facts and experience an individual goes through that helps them remember certain events and information in their memory, so that they are able to use their knowledge to find out certain things. The main brain structure associated with the explicit memories is the hippocampus, where it controls the emotion, memory, and autonomic nervous system and the main brain structure associated with the implicit memories is the cerebellum, which regulates the muscular activities of an