An Often-Used Technique for Demonstrating the Problems with Eye-Witness Accounts

question 38

Multiple Choice

An often-used technique for demonstrating the problems with eye-witness accounts is having an accomplice enter a classroom, pretend to shoot the professor, then leave.The class members are then asked to describe the "gunman." This is an example of

• A) a virtual reality assessment.
• B) a staged naturalistic event.
• C) an unethical observational tool.
• D) a role-playing test.

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