Laken takes a course in which her professor talks about Virginia Woolf's novel,To the Lighthouse.The next semester,Laken 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 behavior comes from:
A) absentmindedness
B) cryptomnesia
C) persistence
D) the sleeper effect

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Laken's behavior is an example of cryptomnesia, which is a memory bias in which a person believes that they came up with an idea or concept, when in fact they heard or read it somewhere else previously. In this case, Laken heard the ideas from her previous professor and then used them in her own paper, thinking that she had developed them herself.

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