Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates?

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Answer:

Source amnesia          

Explanation:

Source amnesia: It refers to the incapability to remember the W's of acquiring previously learned information causing to retain factual knowledge. Here, the W's refer to them when, where and how of the information. Source amnesia malfunctions an individual's explicit memory.

In source amnesia, an individual might remember a piece of new information but not its source i.e, from where it came. It can also help to explain déjà vu.

In the question above, Steve's mistaken recall best illustrates source amnesia.