Two Cars Collide at a Red Light

question 56

Multiple Choice

Two cars collide at a red light.An eyewitness to the incident is later asked by a police officer how fast the vehicles were traveling when they "tapped" each other.You'd expect that the eyewitness's memory would ______.

• A)be biased to say the cars were traveling slower than they actually were
• B)be biased to say the cares were traveling faster than they actually were
• C)be biased to say that no accident occurred at all
• D)remember the event with complete accuracy

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