Before this thread runs its course, I want to ask people about the
content of my earlier post. I said (something like) it happened on
Friday because I know my lab section met on Friday and it was after the
lab that I learned about it (the assassination). Therefore, it was on
Friday. How much inferential "stuff" goes into FM? It's almost like
saying that I know I wore blue socks on Friday and I had on blue socks
and, therefore, it was on Friday. I do or did not remember specifically
that it was on a certain day, but that it was on a certain day because
... Do you see my point? DKH
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I thought I saw all this on TIPS, but nothing shows up in a search.
Can anyone supply the correct details and source?:
A classic illustration of "flashbulb memories" is "Where were
you when you heard that John F. Kennedy was assassinated?"
A classic illustration of of a *false* "flashbulb memory" was
"I was at (or listening to a radio broadcast of) a Brooklyn
Dodgers game at Ebbets Field." (The Dodgers had moved to Los
Angeles in 1957.)
But then someone pointed out that the Brooklyn Dodgers *were*
still playing in Ebbets Field in 1963--the *football* Dodgers.
--Charles
Charles S. Harris, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
webmaster, The Nurture Assumption website:
http://home.att.net/~xchar/tna/
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