Laken took a course in which her professor talked about Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse. The next semester, she writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf. In her paper, Laken uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented, while believing that she has developed these ideas herself. Laken's behaviour comes from:

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Cryptomnesia is the phenomenon where an individual believes that an original idea is their own, when in fact it was previously encountered and forgotten. In this scenario, Laken heard ideas from her earlier professor and unintentionally used them in her paper, believing she had come up with them herself.

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