Check on Endel Tulving's research.
I have a related memory of a dinner with Tulving when I was a grad student.
Tulving had been invited to campus for a colloquium and a large group had
gone to dinner. Conversation turned to flashbulb memories and Endel asked
for personal recollections. He then proceded to identify various errors in
fact in each person's recollection. For example, I recall that my middle
school provided little information during the day. We learned that Kennedy
had been killed only after returning home. I recalled the reactions of
various students when we were back in school again, which I recalled as the
next day. Tulving pointed out that Nov 22 fell on a Friday that year, so my
recollection of being in school again the following day was incorrect. An
interesting aside - I make this "loss of weekend" type of memory error
fairly frequently. :-)
Bohannon and Neisser have both examined errors in flashbulb memories,
including documentation of schematic drift in memories (collecting reports
immediately after an event and the collecting new reports weeks or months
later).
Neisser did a great analysis of John Dean's testimony to Congress (about
Watergate for those Tipsters from younger generations), comparing details
recalled during testimony to actual conversations in transcripts of the
Nixon tapes.
Claudia Stanny
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Britt, Michael <
michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com> wrote:
>
> I thought that I heard something about there being recent research on
> flashbulb memories which indicated that people were nearly as accurate with
> these types of memories as they thought they were. Don't remember the
> reference right now. I'll see if I can dig it up.
>
>
> Michael Britt
> mich...@thepsychfiles.com
> www.thepsychfiles.com
> Twitter: mbritt
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>
>
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:32 AM, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote:
>
>
> Upon hearing of president Kennedy's assassination, I had a reaction similar
> to Mike's. I was 6 years old and playing with my plastic WWII toy soldiers
> in our living room/dining room floor in Cuba. My mother was in the kitchen
> and our front door was open. Suddenly, our next door neighbor, a member of
> the CDR ("Committee for the Defense of the Revolution", a neighborhood
> spying group) barges in, all excited hollering "mataron a Kennedy, mataron a
> Kennedy!" (Kennedy has been killed). I remember my mother reacting with her
> typical surprise "Noooo!". Like Mike I did not understand the significance
> of the event, but I guess that, based in part on the ensuing conversation
> between them and the several "Ay Dios mio" (oh my God!) uttered by my mother
> conveyed to me that the news was not good. Keep in mind that about a year
> and a half earlier the Bay of Pigs invasion had taken place and that was the
> basis for another flashbulb memory of mine. Man-o-man, it was early morning
> and we woke up to the sound of what we thought was thunder; my mother got up
> to close the windows and realized that the thunder was the sound of cannon
> fire and screamed something about being invaded. Planes had been flying
> nearby and we could hear the distant sound of machine gun strafing. We lived
> about 10 miles from a military air base.
>
>
> Of course, I have to wonder how much of the above is a mere reconstruction.
> ;-)
>
>
> Miguel
>
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> My own memory for when I heard about the Kennedy assasination is
> as follows:
>
> I was in the fourth grade in Catholic grade school and it was a sunny
> afternoon. The nun who was our teacher had been called away from
> class and we fidgeted, talked to each other, and fooled around until
> she came back. She had a very serious look on her face and she spoke
> in a low voice, almost a whisper. She told us that the president had been
> shot. I don't remember whether she said whether he had died or not.
> My own reaction was I didn't understand what this meant but I knew
> that it was not good. I don't remember much else from that afternoon
> nor do I remember whether I actually saw Oswald being shot on TV
> a couple of days later. I don't remember many details but I do remember
> the sadness and sense of loss that other displayed and which I eventually
> took on. It would take a while for me to figure out what this all meant.
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