In their "lost in a shopping mall" study, Loftus and Pickrell (1995):
a) found that 75% of participants falsely remembered being lost in a mall.
b) found that when false memories were created, they were quite vague, and not very long lasting.
c) found that participants were just as confident about their false memories as they were about real ones.
d) enlisted family members of the participants as confederates.
Answer: d
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