We remember significant events better not because of any special process/mechanism, but just because they are rehearsed more often.

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Memory of highly shocking and emotionally charged events. It is not necessarily that you were there when the event happened, but often how you heard about the event. A recent, notable and tragic example is people's recalling of first hearing about the 9/11 attacks.

Flashbulb memory

When repeating a stimulus over and over again, you are retaining it into short-term memory.

Rehearsal

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Comparing how memories are recalled well after the events and how they were called immediately after. A technique often used to study flashbulb memories.

Repeated recall

Narrative rehearsal hypothesis

Controls rehearsal which has the ability to keep auditory and verbal information in short term memory for extended periods of time.

articulatory rehearsal process

- maintenance rehearsal
- elaborative rehearsal

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