Source Amnesia refers to an individual's inability to remember how, when, or where knowledge was acquired while retaining factual knowledge itself.
Source amnesia, from a cognitive perspective, involves the inability to recall where, when, or how one has obtained knowledge. It reflects the complexities of memory encoding and retrieval processes.
Research into source amnesia has highlighted its prevalence in everyday life and its particular impact on eyewitness testimony accuracy. Studies by Elizabeth Loftus have been seminal in understanding memory construction and misinformation effects related to source amnesia.