When you were a child, you went to visit your grandparents several times.

When you think back to a visit when you were five, you remember some

things that actually happened on the visit when you were eight. This is an

example of:

This is an example of confabulation, a kind of error in memory wherein the memory gaps are unintentionally, unconsciously filled with distorted information, fabricated, misinterpreted. The individual may confuse imaginations with real memories. While there is no conscious or intentional attempt to deceive others, the person believed it to be true even if in reality it is not.

Explanation:

When a person confabulate, he may either report remembering events that never occurred, or remember events as having occurred at an incorrect time or place. Some of the conditions that are linked to confabulation include memory disorders, brain injuries, and certain psychiatric conditions. There are several associated psychological and neurological conditions. Some of these arel Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome, Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and Traumatic brain injury. Some studies reported that people with damage to the inferior medial frontal lobe are more likely to confabulate than people with either no injury or injury to other areas of the brain.

confabulation