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In one study, children were periodically asked whether they remembered going to the hospital with a mousetrap on their finger. This experiment best illustrated the dynamics of

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Answer: memory reconstruction

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Memory reconstruction is the ability to create new memories even when they do not naturally occur.

people can recall events that never happened or experiences they never really had and present it as though they naturally occur.

Constructed memories can have significant effects; some could lead to false charges of child sexual abuse especially when an adults create such memories though it never actually occurred.

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