Question

Benigno wakes up in the middle of the night. he dreamed that he left the oven on, and he is now convinced that the oven is on. he can't go back to sleep until he turns the oven off. which category of memory failure associated with the seven sins of memory is exemplified

Answer 1

The answer is "distortion".

 Daniel Schacter wrote a book named The seven sins of memory where he explains that our memory works in seven ways to trick us and if like seven sins, we are able to avoid seven sins of memory, it will help us improve the memory.