An attorney uses misleading questions to distort a court witness' recall of a previously observed crime. This best illustrates

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The scenario described in the question best illustrates the misinformation effect, where a person's memory of an event is distorted by information presented to them after the fact. In this case, the attorney is presenting misleading questions, which could result in the witness recalling details that were not actually present in the original event. State-dependent memory and proactive interference are both related to memory recall but do not fit the scenario described in the question. The serial position effect refers to the tendency for people to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle, and it is not relevant to this scenario.

An Attorney Uses Misleading Questions to Distort a Court Witness