Question

A witness to a crime "remembers" the face of another person that he actually saw somewhere other than the crime scene. not remembering the source of his or her information explains the formation of __________ memories.

Answer 1

The formation of "false" memories.Sigmund Freud and Pierre Janet were the initial researchers who worked on the idea of false memories which in short can be explained as a mental issue in which an individual remembers something which in fact never happened, generally it about some sexual abuse someone had experienced in their early years.