An eyewitness to a crime is quite confident that his memory of the crime is correct.In evaluating the eyewitness's testimony,the jury should note that
A) eyewitness memories are incorrect as often as they are correct.
B) memory confidence is sometimes a poor indicator of memory accuracy.
C) memory for the generalities of an event is highly correlated with confidence,but memory for detail is unrelated to confidence.
D) eyewitnesses tend to assert that they are confident only when their memories are reasonably accurate overall.
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