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

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This scenario is an example of erroneous source monitoring, where eyewitnesses may have mistakenly attributed their memory of seeing Adams in the media to their memory of witnessing the murder. This can lead to false identifications and wrongful convictions. It is not an example of own-race bias, as race is not explicitly mentioned in this scenario. The power of schemas to bias attention and racial misidentification are also not relevant to this particular scenario.

It Is Possible That Before Eyewitnesses Came Forward to Identify