Question

Marci vividly remembered winning a stuffed animal at a carnival game when she was a child. However, when she mentioned this to her parents, she was told that the event never occurred. Marci's experience may have been influenced by

Answer 1

Answer:

Imagination inflation

Explanation:

Imagination inflation happens when a person imagine that an event that an event happened in time past and the more they imagine this event the more confident they become that the event truly happened.

Marci is faced with imagination inflation also because she must have imagined herself winning a stuffed animal at a carnival game when she was much younger and this imagination must have gone on often and often in her head that she was confident it really did happen.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is imagination inflation.

Explanation:

Imagination inflation is a memory phenomenon in which a person is convinced that an event actually occured, when in reality it didn't. This occurs because when the person imagines said events, they might remember experiences that they have really experienced, except they don't remember how, when or with whom. This is known as source confusion.