Remembering and Forgetting - Crash Course Psychology #14
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========== It was midnight when Bernice got off work. She was exhausted after a long and terrible
day, and just wanted to get home to a hot bath. She was driving down the street, flipping
through radio stations, when she pulled up to a stop sign, and saw something weird.
A shadowy figure ran up to an idling fruit truck, pushed the delivery man down, grabbed
a crate of bananas, and ran off around the corner.
Bernice was pretty shaken up, but she made sure the driver was okay, and then called
the police, describing the thief as a pale, lanky man, wearing a dark jacket and a baseball
cap. She gave the cops her information, and then she went home.
A couple days later the police asked her to come down to the station to identify a potential
thief--a guy who more or less matched her description, and was...