Rachel asks Chandler to proofread her history essay. He goes through it fairly carefully and makes quite a few suggestions for revisions. The next semester Chandler takes the same course, and he is surprised when the professor suggests that his first essay is "not original work." When Chandler reads Rachel's essay again, he sees that he has included a number of her ideas in his paper. What has Chandler likely experienced in this example?

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Chandler has made a source-monitoring error, where he has attributed Rachel's ideas as his own and incorporated them into his own essay without realizing it. This is a type of memory error where a person has difficulty distinguishing between the source of information they encounter.

Rachel Asks Chandler to Proofread Her History Essay