A psychologist is questioning Hunter about his childhood memories.Hunter is telling the psychologist the story of his favorite Christmas present,a trip to Disneyland.His memories of the present and the trip itself are very clear;however,Hunter believes that the present came from his Uncle Charley,when in fact it was from his Aunt Beth.This type of error in memory is known as:
A)misattribution.
B)false recognition.
C)hindsight bias.
D)childhood amnesia.

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Misattribution refers to the memory error where someone recalls information correctly but attributes it to the wrong source. In this case, Hunter's memory of the Christmas present is clear, but he incorrectly attributes the source of the gift to Uncle Charley instead of Aunt Beth. False recognition refers to mistakenly identifying something as familiar when it's not, hindsight bias is the tendency to believe that an outcome was predictable after it has happened, and childhood amnesia is the inability to remember events from early childhood.

A Psychologist Is Questioning Hunter About His Childhood Memories