Emotional Impact: The emotional impact refers to the intensity and lasting effects that emotions have on an individual. Emotions experienced during a specific event can greatly influence memory recall.
Episodic Memory: Episodic memory is the ability to recall personal experiences or events along with their associated context, such as time, place, emotions, and sensory details.
Cognitive Processing: Cognitive processing involves mental activities such as attention, perception, encoding (inputting information into memory), storage (retaining information), and retrieval (recalling stored information). The way we process sensory information during a specific event affects our overall memory of it.