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Mahmud remembers riding a horse at a fair when he was a little boy. He remembers how it felt to hold on to the horse's mane as it galloped around. However, this incident never happened. His brother, Salim, is the one who rode the horse. Salim has told the story so many times that Mahmud has developed an elaborate memory of having ridden the horse himself. In this scenario, Mahmud's recollection of an experience he has never had is an example of:___________.1. False memory2. Episodic3. Implicit memory4. Phonemic

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Answer: Option A false memory

Explanation: in this case, the person has a vivid description and information about a particular event or situation that actually never occur or most time do occur but they tell it wrongly. A false memory can usually be fake and invented mostly.people with false memory problem are usually said to be mentally unstable. A person with false memory is will try to convince you that it's true and even when the event is true it did not happen to them may someone close to them or they saw it on the newspaper or on television. Most people with false memory can be like to a person who has personality disorder.example a person saw a famous actor on TV, and start dressing and acting like them and later on start claiming that he or she is the actor on television; They start forgetting themselves and taking up the personalyof their idols.

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