Word: flashbulbs
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...years earlier, and the initial results show that White's own pattern may be typical. The incidents that become etched in students memories, White reports, are not the ones that seem "important, pertinent to a central issue, or related to survival." Rather, he says, "what fires the flashbulb is emotion...
...paper the pair wrote on childhood amnesia in 1979 while Pillemer was a graduate student of White's at the School of Education. Examining Freud's claim that memories of childhood cannot go further back than about age seven, the article discussed two distinct kinds of memory. "Flashbulb memories"--a term coined by White's colleague Roger W. Brown, Lindsley Professor of Psychology--consist of pictures of whatever a person is looking at when he gets intensely excited. Script memories, by contrast, string these pictures into narrative stories...
...study proposed that after the crucial Freudian years of six to eight, a child suddenly becomes proficient at recording complex script memories. "That analysis led us to become interested in when the flashbulb goes off," White says...
...groundwork for White and Pillemer's current research was laid in 1977, when Brown and James Kulik published the paper in which the term "flashbulb memory" was proposed--a study of memories of President Kennedy's assassination Based on that project, Pillemer went on to apply the same methods to conduct similar inquiries into memories of the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan and women's memories of the onset of menstruation...