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reality monitoring

reality monitoring

a specific aspect of source monitoring that refers to the process of discriminating between external (real) and internal (imagined) events. A failure or impairment in this process is said to account for such phenomena as false memory and hallucinations. [coined by U.S. psychologist Marcia K. Johnson (1943–  )]

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