When an experimenter asks people to vividly imagine a childhood incident in which they knocked over a punch bowl at a wedding,approximately _______ will later recall the event as something that actually happened.

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Research on false memories has shown that around 25% of participants who are asked to imagine a specific childhood event will later recall it as a true memory. This is known as the imagination inflation effect.

When an Experimenter Asks People to Vividly Imagine a Childhood