Martin and His Wife Witness a Car Speed Through an Intersection

question 243

Multiple Choice

Martin and his wife witness a car speed through an intersection and run a homeless person over.While waiting to talk to the police about the details,Martin mentions to his wife that the car was navy blue (but Martin was mistaken as the car was instead dark gray) .If his wife is now more likely to remember the car as navy blue,what memory error is this?

• A) source misattribution
• B) motivated forgetting
• C) the effect of imagination
• D) exposure to misinformation

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