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

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The process being described is imagination inflation, where repeatedly imagining or visualizing an event can cause a person to eventually remember it as a real memory. The misinformation effect is when new information can alter or distort a person's memory of an event. Confidence malleability refers to the idea that a person's confidence in their memory can be influenced by outside factors. Memory repression is when a person intentionally or unconsciously tries to forget a traumatic or painful memory.

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