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detection of deception: reality monitoring  

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  • People sometimes try to determine whether they have actually experienced an event they have in mind, or whether this memory is based on imagination. The processes by which a person attributes a memory to an actual experience (external source) or imagination (internal source) is called reality monitoring (RM). [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Detection of Deception: Reality Monitoring]

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