Erika landed a job as an analyst for a small marketing research firm whose task was to observe and probe patient behaviours at a small suburban clinic.In her study, she noticed that many of the patients had a tendency to underestimate the time since their last doctor visit.The memory lapse she observed was due to a memory problem called ________.
A)omitting
B)averaging
C)telescoping
D)normalising

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Telescoping is a memory problem in which a person overestimates or underestimates the time between two events, often by "compressing" or "expanding" the time frame in their memory. In this case, the patients are underestimating the time since their last doctor visit, which is an example of telescoping. Omitting, averaging, and normalizing are not memory problems related to time estimation.

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