Rob Was Part of a Psychology Experiment Where He Was

question 18

Multiple Choice

Rob was part of a psychology experiment where he was asked to repeatedly recall a childhood event that never happened to him (i.e., breaking his leg on the playground) . By the end of the experiment, he remembered details of this event. Some researchers have called this process

• A) the misinformation effect.
• B) confidence malleability.
• C) memory repression.
• D) imagination inflation.

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