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The Effects of Emotions on Memory and Forgetfulness
Summary: Dramatic events and emotions can affect one's memory. Collectively shared events, like September 11 or the JFK assassination, can produce "flashbulb" memory, in which a person can remember exact details of the event. "Repressed" memory comes from a reaction of great anxiety to a stressful event. Memory are forgotten because they are associated with stress.
The two main emotional factors that influence memory and forgetting are flashbulb and repression. A flashbulb memory is a memory that has a high emotional significance they are accurate and long lasting. It is almost a photographic memory of a particularly emotional event that is imprinted on your mind. For example an event such as September the 11th, people can remember things such as how they heard it happened, what clothes they were wearing and who they were with very clearly. This is because it was such a sudden emotional impact when they heard it that it got imprinted in their memory. Repression is an emotional factor in forgetting. It is that we forget because we have great anxiety about certain memories. This is because certain memories people push to the back of their mind and try to not think about causing the memories to exist but in...
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