After appearing live on Australian television, memory expert Donald Thomson was accused of rape
It turns out that the victim was watching him on TV when the actual rapist broke into her apartment. This tragic case of mistaken identity was due to
a. source confusion.
b. encoding failure.
c. retroactive suppression.
d. "memory jamming."
ANSWER: a
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