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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Studies have shown that approximately one-fourth of people will later recall the event as something that actually happened when asked to vividly imagine a childhood incident in which they knocked over a punch bowl at a wedding. This phenomenon is known as the "imagination inflation" effect, where imagined events can become incorporated into one's memories and subsequently recalled as real events.

When an Experimenter Asks People to Vividly Imagine a Childhood