Misleading information can often be inadvertently supplied to an eyewitness during the process of an investigator's interview and can result in false recollections. When this happens it is known as _____

a) the misinformation effect.
b) source amnesia.
c) encoding failure.
d) retrieval failure.

Answer: a

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