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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