Episodic memory
Episodic memory is typically measured in human adults by asking people to report or describe past events that they had experienced. Many studies provide participants with information at one point in the study and then assess their memory for this information at a later point in the study. The advantage of these studies is that they allow the accuracy of recall to be assessed, because the study investigators provided the information to be remembered. However, Cheke and Clayton found that different such measures of memory do not closely correspond and that these different measures may therefore capture different facets of memory. A more general limitation with studies is that they fail to capture people's actual memories for real-life events.