If you try very hard, you can transfer something from short term to long term memory. Long term memory helps you remember for a long period of time. It is so powerful that some information stored can last a lifetime. Some examples are, a friend s birthday or memories from when you were a child. Sometimes you can forget a memory, but if you see or hear something familar, you remember it.
Photographic memory is very rare in adults.
People who have photographic memory can take a picture in their mind and remember exactly what it looked like, or read a book in their mind. Other kinds of memory are motor skill and factual. Motor skills are things like walking and riding a bike. It makes it possible for you to do them without thinking. Factual memory is used to remember telephone numbers or the story line of a book.