You take your girlfriend to the fancy restaurant in town.As you are enjoying your meal, you ask her if her meal is as good as the last time you both came to this restaurant.She then informs you that this is the first time she has ever been to this restaurant with you.You have just gotten into trouble due to
A) elaborative processing.
B) anterograde amnesia.
C) repression.
D) encoding failure.

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Elaborative processing involves connecting new information to existing knowledge, which can lead to false memories. In this case, the man incorrectly remembers having been to the restaurant with his girlfriend before because he has elaborated on the current experience by connecting it to a similar past experience.

You Take Your Girlfriend to the Fancy Restaurant in Town