It is possible that before eyewitnesses came forward to identify Randall Adams as the man who murdered a police officer, they had seen his face on television or in the newspaper
Because they saw Adams in the media, they might have come to believe that he was the man they saw on the road where the murder occurred. This is an example of
a. the own-race bias.
b. erroneous source monitoring.
c. the power of schemas to bias attention.
d. racial misidentification.
Answer: B
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a. By using an experimental and control group design in which mothers are randomly given an inadequate or an adequate diet during pregnancy. b. By examining birth records for babies born during periods of famine. c. By using a survey technique to determine how hungry women are during pregnancy. d. By cutting off the food supply to a random group of pregnant women for 3 days in the last trimester of pregnancy.
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b. develop insomnia and nightmares. c. become anxious about having further intrusive thoughts. d. suffer from either posttraumatic stress disorder or social phobia.
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a. More men have eating disorders than women. b. People with bulimia nervosa are more likely to recognize they have an eating disorder than those with anorexia nervosa. c. Eating disorders have always been fairly common. d. People with anorexia nervosa do not have binge eat and purge.
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