In the mid 1990’s investigators succeeded in getting people to incorrectly believe that when they were children, they had been lost in a shopping mall for an extended time, hospitalized overnight, or involved in an unfortunate accident at a family wedding. The investigators were able to do this by enlisting the help of family members to construct scenarios describing true and false experiences and feeding these scenarios to the subjects as if they were all true. A significant minority of subjects came to accept all or part of the suggestion and claimed it as their own experience (Loftus). However, what if there were no family members to help out with the experiment and it were more like a real world situation? Then guided imagination and imagination inflation can come into
In the mid 1990’s investigators succeeded in getting people to incorrectly believe that when they were children, they had been lost in a shopping mall for an extended time, hospitalized overnight, or involved in an unfortunate accident at a family wedding. The investigators were able to do this by enlisting the help of family members to construct scenarios describing true and false experiences and feeding these scenarios to the subjects as if they were all true. A significant minority of subjects came to accept all or part of the suggestion and claimed it as their own experience (Loftus). However, what if there were no family members to help out with the experiment and it were more like a real world situation? Then guided imagination and imagination inflation can come into