When a witness fails to distinguish between a target person and another person encountered at a different time whose face is also familiar, this is called:
a) a misinformation effect.
b) unconscious transference.
c) the sin of absentmindedness.
d) the arousal mode of encoding.
Question 2When Timothy McVeigh was arrested for the Oklahoma City bombing, his steps were traced to a Ryder Truck rental outlet.
A worker at Ryder trucks also reported another man who had been with McVeigh. Police sought
this man out as well, considering him a possible co-conspirator, and referring to him as John Doe 2. Later, it
came out that John Doe 2 was actually an innocent man who had come into the Ryder rental place an hour
or so after McVeigh. The Ryder worker's initial memory about John Doe2 is an example of:
a) a misinformation effect.
b) unconscious transference.
c) photo bias.
d) the effects of emotional stress on eyewitness memory.
Question 3The fact that misleading information presented between the encoding of an event and its subsequent recall can influence the memory of an eyewitness is called:
a) a misinformation effect.
b) photo bias.
c) unconscious transference.
d) the activation mode.
Question 4All of the following statements about the misinformation effect are true except:
a) It is an example of the memory sin of suggestibility.
b) It is an example of the memory sin of misattribution.
c) It is an example of retroactive interference.
d) It is an example of the memory sin of bias.
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