Emilie Is One of Several Witnesses to a Store Robbery

question 391

Multiple Choice

Emilie is one of several witnesses to a store robbery and is asked to wait to talk to the detective and give her account of what happened.As she is waiting,she can't help but overhear the witness who was ahead of her in line describe the mugger as a tall dark-haired man with an anchor tattoo.If Emilie is now more likely to remember the mugger in a similar way,what memory error is this?

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

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