0 a small electric light that can be attached to a camera and makes a bright flash so that photographs can be taken inside or when it is dark
The concept of "flashbulb memories" has been used to explain how highly emotional events can be remembered with great clarity.
Few flashbulb studies have attempted to directly examine the processes involved in flashbulb memory formation.
Once one has access to the "picture," one should have access to both important and unimportant details of the flashbulb occasion.
Do you need a "flash" to form a flashbulb memory?
Why do traumatic experiences sometimes produce good memory (flashbulbs) and sometimes no memory (repression)?
From the double assessment technique, we still cannot tell how accurate people really are in their initial descriptions of the flashbulb circumstances.
This is not, however, to say that flashbulb memories are immune to deterioration with respect to all specific circumstances of the flashbulb event.
Although it is clear that children have flashbulb memories, differences do exist in the way children and adults remember such events.
