Editing Suggestibility (section)

== Examples ==
Suggestibility can be seen in people's day-to-day lives:
* Someone [[witness]]es an argument after school. When later asked about the "huge fight" that occurred, he recalls the memory, but unknowingly distorts it with exaggerated fabrications, because he now thinks of the event as a "huge fight" instead of a simple argument.
* Children are told by their parents they are good singers, so from then on they believe they are talented while their parents were in fact being falsely encouraging.
* A teacher could trick his [[AP Psychology]] students by saying, "Suggestibility is the distortion of memory through suggestion or misinformation, right?" It is likely that the majority of the class would agree with him because he is a teacher and what he said sounds correct. However, the term is really the definition of the [[misinformation effect]].
However, suggestibility can also be seen in extremes, resulting in negative consequences:
* A witness' testimony is altered because the police or attorneys make suggestions during the interview, which causes their already uncertain observations to become distorted memories.
* A young girl begins suffering migraines which lead to sleep deprivation and depression. Her therapist, a specialist in cases involving child abuse, repeatedly asks her whether her father had sexually abused her. This suggestion causes the young girl to fabricate memories of her father molesting her, which lead to her being placed in foster care and her father being tried on charges of abuse.