An assailant entered a classroom and attacked the professor during class! Of course, it was staged for a learning experience so the professor said, "What did he look like? I only noticed he was really tall," even though he was actually rather short. When questioned by the police, most students described the assailant as being really tall; this is known as the _______.

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This phenomenon occurs when people's memory of an event is altered due to misleading information after the event. In this case, the false information provided by the professor about the assailant's height affected the students' memory of the event, causing them to describe the assailant as taller than he actually was.

An Assailant Entered a Classroom and Attacked the Professor During