Research on race and facial identification:
a) reveals that people are better at distinguishing among faces of their own race than they are at distinguishing among faces of another race.
b) reveals that people are better at distinguishing among faces of another race than they are at distinguishing
among faces of their own race.
c) reveals that certain races are better at facial identification than are others.
d) race has little or no influence on the ability to recognize faces.
Question 2Morgan, Hazlett, Doran, Garrett, Hoyt, Thomas, Baranoski, and Southwick (2004) investigated the effects of traumatic stress on memory by ___________ and found that traumatic stress has __________.
a) interviewing former prisoners of war; surprisingly little effect on memory
b) interviewing former prisoners of war; surprisingly powerful effects on eyewitness ID
a) testing soldiers who had gone through a simulated prison camp; surprisingly little effect on memory
b) testing soldiers who had gone through a simulated prison camp; surprisingly powerful effects on
eyewitness ID
Question 3In a classic study by Carmichael, Hogan, & Walters (1932), participants were given ambiguous drawings with one of two different labels.
Later, they were asked to draw the figures they had encoded. During this retrieval
phase, they ________, demonstrating the memory sin of ________.
a) were unable to draw much of anything; transience
b) were unable to draw much of anything; bias
c) mis-drew the items consistent with the label they had seen; transience
d) mis-drew the items consistent with the label they had seen; bias
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