The Influence Of Flashbulb Memory

Jim's inaccurate memory of the day his parents won the lottery is very common in flashbulb memory. The fact that Jim could recall the exact place where he was sitting in his house and what board game he and his siblings were playing when they head the news, and the score of the game shows the way in which memory illusion plays a role. Memory illusiopns are by-products of of our brain's generally adaptive tendancy to go beyond the information available t it. Thus, it is clear that Jim's brain had a memory illusion based on the little information he remebered and his brain filled in the missing peices with false information that made sense to him.

Flashbulb memory are emotional memories that seem so vivid that people recount them in remarkable, even photogrphic, detail. Another item that may explain Jim's inacccurate detail may be later recollection which is the idea that a memory will change overtime from when the event happened. The source monitoring confusion may have also played a part becuase Jim may not have been clear on the origin of his memory. Phantom flashbulb memory illustrates how many seeming flashbulb memories are false.
This can be becuase he may have been provided with misleaing information after the event which lead to the fictious memories. Childrenare also vulnerable to suggestions to recall events that did not occur, so implanted stories of events that never occured will seem real to the child and they will believe