Just before a music concert,a fake crime was staged next to the line of people waiting to get into the auditorium.In the staged crime,a man steals a woman's handbag and runs away.One of the people in line was also part of the setup.As the bystanders began talking about the robbery,he asked a few of them if they had noticed the writing on the robber's hat.The robber,however,had not worn a hat.Yet,when later questioned by "the police," some of the witnesses reported that the robber was wearing a hat.This scenario BEST illustrates:

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The scenario illustrates suggestibility, which is the tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal memories. The bystander who asked about the hat planted a false memory in some of the witnesses, leading them to report that the robber was wearing a hat when he actually wasn't. This highlights how our memories can be influenced by external cues and suggestibility, rather than being completely accurate representations of past events.

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