When conducting a police line-up, it is best to have all the distractors look like the person witnesses described and also to warn the witnesses that the suspect may not be present in the line-up. These steps will reduce the occurrence of

a. false positives.
b. proactive interference.
c. the serial position effect.
d. memory consolidation.

ANSWER: a

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