The fabrication of experiences or situations recounted in a plausible way to cover gaps in the memory is known as:
a. anhedonia.
b. autism.
c. confabulation.
d. delusion.
c
Confabulation, or the fabrication of experiences or
situations recounted in a plausible way to cover gaps in the
memory, is often used as a defence mechanism.
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