As Joe is telling his grandmother about the animals he saw at the city zoo, he tells her "And there was a dinosaur there too!" Joe's grandmother says to him, "Are you sure there was a dinosaur there, or are you just pretending?" Joe gets upset, thinking that his grandmother does not believe him, and insists that he is remembering correctly. Joe's lack of ability to recognize that people can
misremember events indicates that he has not yet developed a high level of ____.
a. maintenance rehearsal
b. eidetic imagery
c. source monitoring
d. metamemory
d
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