After appearing live on Australian television, memory expert Donald Thomson was accused of rape. It turns out that the victim was watching him on TV when the actual rapist broke into her apartment. This tragic case of mistaken identity was due to
A)source confusion.
B)encoding failure.
C)retroactive suppression.
D)"memory jamming."

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This case is an example of source confusion, where the victim mistakenly attributed the memory of seeing Donald Thomson on TV at the time of the attack to him being the attacker, rather than correctly identifying the source of the memory as the television.

After Appearing Live on Australian Television, Memory Expert Donald Thomson