Two consequences of respondents' forgetting the exact details of their behavior are called telescoping and squishing.

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Telescoping refers to the tendency of respondents to remember events that occurred further in the past as having occurred more recently, while squishing refers to the opposite tendency of remembering more recent events as having occurred further in the past. Both are consequences of respondents' imperfect memory of their past behaviors.

Two Consequences of Respondents' Forgetting the Exact Details of Their