The description of flashback memory includes two different components: memory properties and event properties. Events which normally lead to flashback memories are typically unforeseen, emotionally overloading and far-reaching. The research includes methodological examination public events which are shared across many persons, however this is not an event characteristic. Terrorist assaults on United States of America on 11 September 2001 indisputably fulfill the event conditions for producing flashback memories. Events such as 9/11 resulted in memories that are long- long-lasting, very vivid and ‘practically perceptual vivacity’ and which one may trust to be very precise. The importance on memory correctness has showed that the constancy of these particular memory features and the connections between memory and event character have been under-researched. Some features, such as vividness, have been incorporated in many investigations, however others, such as narrative and language properties, have been almost overlooked. Hence, a comprehensive investigation of FBM features is essential to define which of these features truly distinguish flashback memory from the everyday memories (EDMs).
The research examines present evidence for every feature in flashback memories, and how these properties relay on event physiognomies, in turn the recollection of an event is decisive property of the autobiographical memory and of the episodic memory. Variously defined as a feeling of remembering the past occasion in the present-day or of going back in time in order to re-experience the occasion, recollection distinguishes episodic recalling from the semantic recollection. In the laboratory memory jobs, episodic memory is frequently operationally well-defined as memorizing a particular item and not just understanding that particular item it occurred
VIVIDNESS
Flashback memories are illustrating by their unusual vividness regularly showing ceiling impacts in vividness scores even after that particular event. Hence, people should anticipate improved vividness for Flashback memories vs. everyday memories and that the vividness ratings ought to remain constant over elongated delays for flashback memories, but decline for the everyday memories.
BELIEF/CONFIDENCE
Flashback memories are regularly remembered with a greater level of confidence than different memories of the same period even when people are showed evidence that occurrence in memory may not have happened as it is recalled Confidence is regularly at top position and usually remains high for months after the occurrence.
LANGUAGE AND THE NARRATIVE
The only research of narrative consistency or specificity in Flash back memories were encompassed in Alaric "Rubin (2003), which reported FBMs seems to be more clear (and less disjointed) than EDMs, however these ratings reduced over time for these two memories. The research however expect this arrangement to carry on through the elongated delay interval.
EMOTION
Emotion can be defined by two distinct elements: valence (positive versus negative) and the intensity (high versus low). Additionally, the vector concept of emotion recollection suggests that the moment dichotomous choice about valence is decided, increasing valence is operationally equivalent to growing intensity. Hence, the flashback memories are regarded as very negative as well as emotionally powerful,
Approach for this research
The present study includes two studies with nearly identical strategies. The first applied dramatic flashbulb incident - September 11, 2001 terror attack. The second applied a performed non-flashbulb control incident from contributors‟ personal past incidences. This occasion was similar for all contributors and involved receiving the bad news through mobile phone which the contributor was not a champion in a reward draw run by the investigator. Using the mobile phones made sure that contributors will be in various areas, as with the flashbulb recollections.
Hypotheses
If the flashbulb recollections are unlike from normal autobiographical recollections, then the preservation of recollections of control incident after a littler postponement of approximately 11-12 months can still be bad than the flashbulb recollections after an elongated postponement of the 23-24 months’ period. Additionally, emotional compensation hypothesis “age differences in overlooking and misrepresentation should be bigger for the impacts of participant Age on non-Flashbulb and Flashbulb Recollections control occasions than for dreadful events. Hence, it was projected that age impact, for both test-retest consistency and phenomenological features, would be obtained for the control event in Study 2, but not for the flashbulb event in Study 1.
Method
Overall method
The research method was between themes with 4 independent elements: (1) age of contributors (old, young); (2) type of incident (control, flashbulb); (3) postponement between incident and the initial testing (long, short,), and (4) amount of initial examinations (two, one,). Therefore, half of contributors were tested once and were examined again after 2 weeks from the initial test. The contributors were called again for the final re-test following an interruption of 2 years (flashbulb incident).
There were 3 sets of the dependent variables: (1) the self-rated background events of rehearsal and encoding (surprise, confidence, emotion, and rehearsal); (2) the phenomenological features of memories regardless of their constancy (amount of official items stated in free recollection, specificity of response to five canonical features in probed memory and clarity on a ten-point gage); and (3) the memory constancy score (WAS) resultant from contributors‟ answers to 5 canonical queries in investigated recollection at test as well as re-test.
In conclusion, study on autobiographical memory and aging has been grounded mainly on an approach in which contributors remember the memories in reaction to the word clues or time stages proposed by an investigator. Like the laboratory investigation of periodic memory, this study has led to in vital age impacts both in specificity as well as remember memories and recovery times. Though, very little knowledge about age impacts in retention and consistency and retention of individual autobiographical memories (whether mundane or emotional). The outcome of this present research begin can fill this gap as it shows that there exist no age impacts in the consistency and specificity of autobiographical memories of emotionally touching occasions over interruption intervals of 2 or even 3 years. I can say the article was of much interest especially to psychology student because it analysis the thought process and human memory this can help us to understand how human brain works. The research well planned and articulated, however it could have been better if it included cases of low stress events as well, to determine how the memory process occur in both situations. The research followed ethical order and respected all human part.
