If you hear that an airplane crashes into the empire state building, and you immediately think of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the world trade center, you are reacting to what type of memory?

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2 January, 14:57

If you hear that an airplane crashes into the empire state building, and you immediately think of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the world trade center, you are reacting to what type of memory?

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Lance Lamb · Answer 1

Associating one memory to an incident or current situation that has similarities to the memory is common every now and then. in this case, the terrorist attack to another building is an example of a suppressed memory in which the everyone wants to forget the horror and the aftermath of the attack.