Loftus and Palmer (1974) manipulated the wording of questions posed to participants who witness a filmed traffic accident. Their findings suggest that
a. the wording affected the participants' memory for the accident.
b. the wording did not affect the participants' memory for the accident.
c. witnesses often store multiple, contradictory memories for a single event.
d. most eyewitness errors have to do with problems that arise during encoding.
a
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