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discuss the role of emotional factors in memory
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Discuss the role of emotional factors in memory. Flashbulb memory is a vivid, long-lasting memory of a highly significant event accompanied by recollection of details such as where we heard the news and what we were doing at the time. Flashbulb memory can be a personal event or something which provokes wide world interest, e.g. the death of princess Diana. These memories from flashbulb memory are perceived to have a "photographic" quality. Repression is a defence mechanism, which we call the unconscious process. There are two types of flashbulb memory special and not special. The special memories tend to be on our own experiences and the not special are memories that are not convincing This is a distressing memory or impulse is excluded from the conscious awareness and its also a theory of forgetting. It is often claimed that traumatic events are repressed, yet it appears that the trauma more often...
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