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Flashbulb Memories

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A flashbulb memory is an unusually vivid and detailed memory of the circumstances surrounding a shocking event.

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People describe exactly where they were on hearing major news, decades afterward, in confident detail.

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Vividness and confidence are unusually high for these memories. Accuracy is not.