What are examples of episodic memory?

Examples of episodic memory might include the day a person’s younger brother was born, the first day on the school bus or the pony rides at a birthday party. Remembering breaking one’s leg skiing and taking the driver’s license test are also episodic memories.

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory in which people associate emotions and other contextual details and thus are able to reconstruct the events that took place. Two people may remember the same circumstances entirely differently because of the differences in perception and their feelings about the situation. Episodic memories are important to a person’s identity.