Question

Jacoby's experiment, in which participants made judgments about whether they had previously seen the names of famous and non-famous people, found that inaccurate memories based on source misattributions occurred after a delay of _________.
A. One weekB. 24 hoursC. One hourD. One month

Answer 1

Answer:

Option B

24 hours

Explanation:

Inaccurate memories, which are also seen as false memories, are psychological conditions where people remember things that never happened, or on more subtle cases, remember things different from the way they happened.

False memory can come in various forms. One of them is misattributions of familiarity. it is displayed in the "False name effect".In  The False name effect people confused famous people for non-famous ones, because of the perception of familiarity. This effect usually occurred after a delay of one day (24 hours).