A Police Investigator Interviewing a Witness to a Murder Told

Multiple Choice

A police investigator interviewing a witness to a murder told the witness to imagine that she was going back to the scene of the crime. He further told her that her memory was like a video recorder and she would recall details very accurately if she imagined the crime this way, just as if watching it on television. The police interviewer's approach is showing which problem with thinking?

A) Committing the red herring fallacy
B) Making a sweeping generalization
C) Making a hasty generalization
D) Showing naive realism