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Your teacher can vividly recall where he was and what he was doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although he cannot remember what he was doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ___________.

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Flashbulb memory.

It’s where you vividly remember an extreme event but not before or after (the mundane parts)

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