Author Question: In a study investigation flashbulb memories for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hirst and his colleagues ... (Read 39 times)

Anajune7 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

In a study investigation flashbulb memories for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hirst and his colleagues found that:

a) almost nothing was forgotten in participants' reports of how they had heard about the event.
b) most of the forgetting that occurred came between years 2 and 3 of the three-year period.
c) confidence decreased over the three year interval as much as memory did.
d) the factors influencing forgetting were different for event memories and flashbulb memories

Question 2

Neisser & Harsch (1992) introduced the notion of TV priority in their research on flashbulb memories. TV priority refers to ________ and may help explain ________.

a) people's tendency to watch too much TV; the vividness of flashbulbs
b) people's tendency to watch too much TV; the distortions that occur in flashbulbs
c) people's schema for hearing disaster news; the vividness of flashbulbs
d) people's schema for hearing disaster news; the distortions that occur in flashbulbs