Orlando swears he remembers the cake and the guests at the party his parents held in honor of his 4th birthday. In reality, Orlando merely remembers the snapshots of the event he viewed in his Mom's photo album much later in his childhood. Orlando's manufactured memory reflects:
A)the representativeness effect
B)functional fixedness
C)a source monitoring error
D)counterfactual thinking

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Orlando's belief that he remembers the event itself, when in fact he remembers images from a photo album, is a source monitoring error. This error occurs when a person incorrectly attributes the source of a memory, such as believing they directly experienced something they only learned about through photographs or stories.

Orlando Swears He Remembers the Cake and the Guests at the Party