It Is Possible That Eyewitnesses Who Identified Thomas Sophonow as the Man

question 74

Multiple Choice

It is possible that eyewitnesses who identified Thomas Sophonow as the man who murdered Barbara Stoppel were familiar with his face because it happened to resemble the police sketch or because they had seen him in earlier trials.Because they were familiar with his face,eyewitnesses might have come to believe that he was the man who was seen near the scene of the crime.This is an example of

• A) the power of schemas to bias attention.
• B) racial misidentification.
• C) erroneous source monitoring.
• D) the power of stereotypical thinking.
• E) own-race bias.

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