Childhood Suggestibility & False-Memory Implantation Simulator

This simulator visualizes a real and well-documented developmental-psychology phenomenon: preschool-age children are dramatically more susceptible than adults to having entirely false memories implanted during the initial memory-formation stage, not merely distorted through later retelling. Drawing on Ceci & Bruck's suggestibility research, it models the probability that a suggestively-interviewed false event becomes "solidified" into a child's memory as a logistic function of question-suggestiveness strength and the number of interview sessions, further scaled by age-based susceptibility. A jittered population of simulated children is plotted against the underlying acceptance curve — as suggestiveness, session count, or a younger age slider are increased, more of the population's individual outcomes flip from "rejected" to "accepted," and the model curve itself climbs toward saturation. Run repeated interview sessions on a single simulated child to watch a false memory cross the threshold into being believed as real.