I teach my students that memories are never exact replications of our experiences, & that most memories degrade over time. Though we indicate that once memories are converted into so-called Long-Term-Memory they are stored at an infinite capacity & for an infinate duration. We can identify a number of factors that interfere & contaminate memory recall. And we teach that we posses explicit & implicit memories. We even debate the issue of allowing eyewitness testimony in a court of law, given how unreliable it is!

And remarkably, we experience “flashbulb” memories, a few exhibit autobiographical memories & some autistic savants demonstrate off-the-chart memorization & highly accurate recall!

Rich