The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of __________ on memory.
A) repeated rehearsal of distinctive names
B) source misattributions
C) encoding specificity
D) schemas

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The experiment illustrates the effect of source misattributions on memory, where participants mistakenly believed non-famous names they had been exposed to in the experiment were actually famous, confusing the source of their familiarity.

The Experiment for Which People Were Asked to Make Fame