The susceptibility of our memories to include false details that fit in with real details of an event is called the
A) priming effect.
B) interference effect.
C) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
D) misinformation effect.

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The susceptibility of our memories to include false details that fit in with real details of an event is called the misinformation effect. The other options refer to different cognitive phenomena: the priming effect describes how exposure to a stimulus can influence a subsequent response, the interference effect refers to the difficulty of recalling information due to interference from other information, and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is the feeling of knowing a word but being unable to recall it.

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