Question

Jacob has to write an essay for his college writing class and decides to write about a boy who makes a boat from Popsicle sticks and sails it every day. When his teacher reads the essay, she realizes that Jacob got the idea from a popular book. Jacob denies knowing about the story from a book and honestly believes he thought of it himself. He is most likely suffering from

Answer 1

The correct answer is - cryptomnesia.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cryptomnesia is more likely to takes place when an individual falsely claims that an idea, thought or source is their own and original thought but actually encountered or heard earlier and forgot about it.

On some level, every person has experienced cryptomnesia and believed any source we encountered or heard and forget about it and after some time believed that it is our own original concept or idea. Jacob is also suffering from cryptomnesia here.