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What does confabulate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
  2. (intransitive) To confer.
  3. (psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
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In order to avoid this, a trauma patient may consciously or unconsciously confabulate symptoms in order to keep the therapist interested and engaged.
Several meetings of the Commission were held beside a number of meetings to confabulate on certain aspects in the course of inquiry.
People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
Yassin had each of the five confabulate a work, each attributed to him, which is impossible to stage.
Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.
While many patients who confabulate are obviously highly suggestible, precise tests of suggestibility have not been used in most clinical evaluations.

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