A mechanic at a truck rental office described a muscular man with a baseball cap and black T-shirt as the person who rented the truck that was eventually used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. However, Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted of the bombing, did not resemble that description. The mechanic realized he had been confused and instead had described an innocent man who was at the truck rental office the day before McVeigh appeared there. This is a real-world example of faulty __________.

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The mechanic's confusion between the actual person who rented the truck and another individual who was present at the truck rental office on a different day is an example of source monitoring error, where the mechanic incorrectly attributed his memory of a person to the wrong event or source.

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