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Memories take up a vital part of everyone’s life. The human experience is heavily influenced by remembering emotionally impactful moments and even remembering facts. Although memories are significant, many details are either modified or forgotten as we age. Not in the case of people who have hyperthymesia. Hyperthymesia is defined as the rare ability to remember nearly every event in life with great accuracy to detail. It is also known as superior memory. People with this ability tend to have ...

This is a short essay written about teratogens for General Psychology 2012. Teratogens are defined as agents of birth defects due to exposure to substances like certain medicines, tobacco products, and alcohol as a developing fetus. It causes birth defects that impair the fetus’s abilities as they develop. Although these effects become present as their brain develops throughout their life, most of the damage happens during development as a fetus.