Question

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates
A) implicit memory.
B) proactive interference.
C) the misinformation effect.
D) anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

Answer:Teresa's experience best illustrates C) the misinformation effect

Explanation:

The misinformation effect occurs when an information that occured in the past interfere with the memories of the current events. No matter how not obvious the introduced information is but it can impact hugely on how people remember a certain information. This result to false information due to this interference of other information to the current information.