Such errors are sometimes associated with the memory sin of misattribution, where we remember aspects of an experience correctly but attribute them to the wrong source.
We mistake an idealized version of our past for a real recollection (misattribution) or claim an "implanted" memory as our own when it has been suggested by someone else (suggestibility).
Schacter recognizes that tendency and structures his discussion of memory around seven of its "sins" -- transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.
Misattribution occurs when we confuse the source of a memory, suggestibility when a false memory is implanted as a result of leading questions, comments, or suggestions, bias when our current knowledge and beliefs lead us to revise memories of our previous experiences, and persistence when memories of disturbing events linger despite our best efforts to forget them.
A map of the Lower East Side of New York, published on Nov. 12 with a review of "Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America," by Hasia R. Diner, carried a misattribution from the book.
Correction: December 3, 2000, Sunday A map of the Lower East Side of New York, published on Nov. 12 with a review of "Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America," by Hasia R. Diner, carried a misattribution from the book.
Harvard psychology professor Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter, in his 2001 book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, refers to cryptomnesia as a sin of misattribution.
In later source memory judgements many of the imagined words were incorrectly judged as previously seen, but with emotional words having lower misattribution rates.
This is all misattribution.
Such informality produced misattribution.
That's another kind of misattribution.
