People who had seen identical film footage of a traffic accident rated a car's speed

differently, depending on the question that they had been asked. This demonstrated that

(a) working memory is unreliable
(b) LTM is constructive
(c) cars that go faster break more glass
(d) temporal event memory slippage causes us to be unable to retrieve
information


B

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