Discussion
Which of the following factors reduce the accuracy of eyewitness testimony ?
1. Suggestibility
2. Source monitoring errors
3. Interference
4. Decay of memory traces
5. Illusion of outgroup homogeneity
Answer: C
The accuracy of eyewitness testimony is reduced by suggestibility (misleading information after the event), by source monitoring errors (the witness forgets where information came from and mixes up the sources) and by the illusion of outgroup homogeneity (members of another group look alike, causing errors in identification). So statements 1, 2 and 5 are right. Interference and decay of memory traces are general explanations of forgetting and are not the factors the key accepts here.
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