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Brown and Kulik and Flashbulb Memories Background Brown and Kulik (1977) found that people could remember important public events such as J.F Kennedy's death emotionally and detailed. Most people could remember where they were, what they were doing, how they felt and happened after. Brown and Kulik also found that flashbulb memories were more likely in unexpected cases for example J.F. Kennedy's death and when people can relate to the flashbulb memory e.g. when Martin Luther King died only 33% of white participants could remember. Aim To follow Brown and Kulik's investigation we decided to investigate if people could recall flashbulb memories. The hypothesis of this experiment is "People can report strong and emotional memories for major events such as Princess Diana's death." This hypothesis is one-tailed because it predicts that the results go in one direction. It is also directional because it states the direction of a difference. The null hypothesis is "People...

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