Flashbulb memories are those memories that we remember in an instant. These memories can be remembrances of traumatic events or something you just clearly remember. We remember events such as 9/11, Kennedy assassination, weather on a certain day, what you wore to a certain event. In 1977 psychologist Roger Brown PhD first poised flashbulb memory, memories that wrote important to us. Public traumas are captured by Psychologists to help in research and found that the 9/11 destruction was a good example of the flashbulb memory. After 10 years of research, findings are not clear and sometimes we forget or don't remember the correct facts. Some psychologists feel more research is still needed to see if emotion memory making or distinguish flashbulb from regular memory. It is believed the closer we are to an event mentally or physically the better we are at remembering. Psychologist Jennifer Talarico thought at the time of 9/11 would be a good opportunity to study flashbulb memory and how people would immediately react.
