Compare And Contrast Talarico And Rubin

Jennifer M. Talarico and David C. Rubin where the experimenters for their unique experiment that took almost 2 years to achieve. Their experiment was conducted a day after September 11th with the terrorist attacks. They set out to test the accuracy on flashbulb memories compared to ordinary memories. Flashbulb memories are extremely vivid, long-lasting memories for unexpected, emotionally laden, and consequential events (Talarico, J., & Rubin, D, 2003, p. 455).One may think they remember a significant event accurately because of the emotional impact on them. We tend to recall more tragic events or ones that we think have a greater influence with them. For instance a woman may be able to recall details and events from her wedding, more than she could recall things from a trip to the grocery store around the same time her wedding had taken place. Events have to stand out to us or we have to have an emotional connection with them in order to store them for later retrieval. Talarico and Rubin made somewhat the best out of a situation and used an opportunity to test the accuracy on the September 11 events.

After being contacted, participants were assigned a follow up session at random after they answered questions on the questionnaire. The follow up session groups were either going to be one, six, or thirty six weeks later. The question that the participants had to answer were rather simple ones; One of the questions that participants were asked was “who or what first told you the information?”(Talarico, J., & Rubin, D, 2003, p. 455). They were then asked to express any one memory they had made. It could be any memory of their choice, but I had to be within the week of the September eleven terrorist attacks. The accuracy of these memories will later be compared when all the data is