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Jacob has to write an essay for his writing course and decides to write about a boy who is actually a wizard. When his teacher reads the essay, she realizes that Jacob got the idea from a popular book. Jacob denies this, honestly believing that he thought of the idea himself. Jacob is experiencing

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Answer:

Cryptomnesia

Explanation:

Cryptomnesia is a phenomenon in which the forgotten memory gets the return. The patient does not recognize it. The patient believes that this memory is new and it is original.

This is called a memory bias. Here the person recalls the thought, ideas, tune, and the jokes. The person is not engaging in plagiarism. But the person thinks that this is a new and original memory.

This term cryptomnesia first was used by Stainton Moses in 1974. Carls Gustav Jung also introduced this term in his work Occult phenomena.

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