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One child who participated in a memory experiment falsely remembered that he once went to the hospital because he had caught his finger in a mouse-trap. His false memory best illustrated the impact of:________.

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suggestive interviewing

Step-by-step explanation:

A suggestive interview or suggestive question is one that implies that a certain answer should follow a certain response, falsely indicating that a presupposed answer to a question is an accepted fact, and therefore true. In the example above the boy falsely remembers he went to the hospital after he cut his finger because "he is supposed to go to the hospital after he cut his finger".

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