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Source-Monitoring Framework
The source-monitoring framework is based on to the reality-monitoring but more elaborated by considering internal source monitoring and external source monitoring too. With this elaboration the source-monitoring framework explains how the differentiation of different sources works.

The different types of source monitoring are all based on the memory characteristics like perceptual or cognitive operational information and the judgement process. The memory is not tagged with the source but it can be determined by considering memory characteristics like:


 * perceptual information
 * contextual information
 * semantic detail
 * affective information
 * cognitive operational information

If the memory has a lot of information about the cognitive operations, it indicates being derived from an internal source. The other four characteristics indicate the memory orginating from an external source. The way people judge the memory can also support source monitoring. It can be classified in two ways:


 * 1) The judgment can proceed automatically as heuristic judgments and is often based on a rule of thumb which indicates which source is more likely.
 * 2) The judgment could also proceed controlled as symstematic judgments for which a rule of thumb is not sufficient.

The heuristic judgment is more likely for source judgments, because its criteria is based on memory characteristics, while the systematic judgment deals with the criteria of the embeddedness of the memory like its plausibility and consistency with other memories. Both judgment types are succeptible to personal goals and motives. The different judgment types and the succeptibility of each also indicate that source attribution is flexible and varies under different circumstances.