Question

Eight years ago, when Lucas was in the third grade, he and a friend tried to light a cigarette in Lucas's tree house. They started a fire that burned down the tree house, but his mom and the neighbors were able to extinguish the fire quickly. Lucas, now a junior in high school, recalls the event and still remembers every detail as though it happened yesterday. What kind of memory is Lucas recalling?

Answer 1

The answer is called Hyperthymesia

Step-by-step explanation:

Hyperthymesia is a condition that causes people to be able to remember an large number of their life experiences in vivid detail over the course of their reflection. This condition differs among individuals and the level of detailed recalls also varies.

In the case of his recalling of the incident that happens eight years ago in clear details as if it happened few minutes ago, shows that he has a condition called hyperthymesia which is a kind of memory recalling.

Answer 2

Flashbulb

Step-by-step explanation:

A flashbulb memory is a highly comprehensive, unique graphic 'snapshot' of the time and happenings in which a bit of confounding and significant (or emotionally inducing) news was learned of.

The word "flashbulb memory" connotes the confounding, non-selective, expressed, and conciseness of a photograph; although flashbulb memories are only kind of non-selective and incomplete. Findings has supported that despite the fact that people are highly self-assured in their memories, the conciseness of the memories may not be exact as it happened.

Flashbulb memories are a form of autobiographical memory. Some researchers suppose that there is a need to distinguish flashbulb memories from varying forms of autobiographical memory since its dependent on factors of personal value, annotations, emotion, and amazement.

Flashbulb memories possesses six peculiar attributes: place, the present activity, informer, own effect, other effect, and aftermath. Possibly, the major stimulus of a flashbulb memory entails a risen level of surprise, a risen amount of antecedents, and maybe emotional inducement.