Autobiographical Memory
- The inability to form memories isn't what keeps us from remembering things from when we were babies.
- Memories aren't always exact replicas of what actually happened to us; they can be constructed and reconstructed over time
- In fact, children are especially susceptible to suggestion in their remembering of events.
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