[6] tertiis nundinis partis secanto. si plus minusve secuerunt, se fraude esto.
(Gellius 20, 1, 48-52)
[7] adversus hostem aeterna auctoritas
level of surprise and the personal importance of the event determines the emotional arousal, which gives the person a need to rehearse the event by talking or thinking about it constantly. Rehearsal might affect memory in two ways, first, improving by reinforcement of existing memory traces or second, by modifying the content. People start constructing stories and might change them in order to understand and make sense of the situation that personally fits their ideas and values. Neisser and Harsch asked college students about a shocking public event, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Interviewed again 3 years later, about half of the participants remembered some details correctly but recalled other details inaccurately. ¼ of the students completely misremembered all the major details and were astonished of how inaccurate their memories were comparing to the original descriptions. Neisser has suggested that the memories are so vivid because the event
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