A patient's vivid, confident memory of a shocking news event later turns out to contain factual inaccuracies. Why does this not necessarily mean the patient is being untruthful or that the memory isn't a genuine flashbulb memory?

Because flashbulb memories are known to fade or distort over time despite retaining strong subjective confidence, and this gap between confidence and accuracy is itself a defining, well-documented feature of the phenomenon

Because all memories are equally unreliable regardless of type

Because the patient must have been told a different version of events by someone else

Because flashbulb memories don't actually exist as a real phenomenon

A patient's vivid, confident memory of a shocking news event later turns out to contain factual inaccuracies. Why does this not necessarily mean the patient is being untruthful or that the memory isn't a genuine flashbulb memory?

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