Right before Shaw left the house, he stopped to try and decide whether or not he remembered to grab his cell phone like he had intended. This is called __________.

Reality monitoring is deciding whether a memory came from something that actually happened or from something you imagined or intended. Shaw is trying to distinguish actually grabbing his phone from merely intending to grab it, so this is reality monitoring. Source monitoring is the broader process of identifying where a memory came from.

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