To impress her friends, Wanda began telling her friends that she once met a famous celebrity, which was a lie. After years of retelling the same story, Wanda begins to believe that it really did happen to her. This is an example of

A) the DRM effect.
B) imagination inflation.
C) anterograde amnesia.
D) a recovered memory.

Answer: B
Rationale: Imagination inflation refers to the increased confidence in a false memory of an event following repeated imagination of the event.

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