During a party,Michael was talking to a friend about the symbolism involved in a recent movie.Michael attributed the explanation of the symbolism to a prominent movie critic,when actually he heard it from his roommate.Which phenomena does this example illustrate

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This example illustrates source-monitoring error, which is the inability to distinguish between the true source of a memory and a false source. Michael attributes the explanation to the wrong source (a movie critic instead of his roommate). Cryptomnesia refers to the phenomenon of mistakenly thinking that a thought or idea is original when it was actually previously encountered unconsciously. Amnesia is a complete or partial loss of memory, which is not applicable in this scenario. Serial-position effect refers to the tendency to better remember items at the beginning or end of a list, which is not relevant to this situation.

During a Party,Michael Was Talking to a Friend About the Symbolism