When Erika landed a job as an analyst for a small marketing research firm working for a medical clinic, she noticed that many of the respondents in her study had a tendency to underestimate the time since their last doctor visit. The memory lapse she was dealing with is called telescoping.

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Telescoping is a memory error where people perceive recent events as being more distant and distant events as more recent, leading to underestimation or overestimation of time intervals.

When Erika Landed a Job as an Analyst for a Small