On September 12, 2001, Psychologists Jennifer Talarico and David Rubin

On September 12, 2001, psychologists Jennifer Talarico and David Rubin (2003) had Duke University students complete questionnaires about how they learned about the terrorist attacks against the United States the previous day. For comparison, students also described some ordinary event that had occurred in their lives at about the same time, such as going to a sporting event. Students were then randomly assigned to a follow-up session either 1 week, 6 weeks, or 32 weeks later. This research study was designed to:

A) replicate Hermann Ebbinghaus's classic research on forgetting.
B) determine how rapidly memory consolidation occurs for emotionally charged events versus ordinary, everyday events.
C) determine if there are cross-cultural differences in the memory of national events versus ordinary events.
D) investigate whether flashbulb memories are more likely than ordinary memories to be accurate and consistent over time.