You recall being lost in a shopping mall at the age of five but your parents assure you that it never happened.Errors like this are most likely due to
A) ineffective encoding.
B) a reality monitoring error.
C) a source monitoring error.
D) the misinformation effect.

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A reality monitoring error occurs when a person misremembers the source of a memory, such as believing that they experienced an event when they actually only heard about it. In this case, the person may have heard a story about being lost in a shopping mall and later misremembered it as their own experience.

You Recall Being Lost in a Shopping Mall at the Age