Reese asks Delancey to proofread his history term paper for him.She goes through it very carefully and makes quite a few suggestions for revisions and improvements.The next semester Delancey takes the same course, and she is surprised when the professor suggests that her term paper is "not original work." When Delancey goes back and rereads Reese's paper, she sees that she has included a number of his ideas in her paper.In this example, Delancey's cryptomnesia was most likely a result of:
A)explicit memory
B)implicit memory
C)schema-based memory
D)retroactive interference

Question

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Delancey's cryptomnesia was a result of implicit memory because the ideas she copied from Reese's paper were stored in her memory without her conscious awareness. She did not intentionally plagiarize his ideas but rather unconsciously retrieved them from her memory while writing her own paper.

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