Megreya and Burton (2008) investigated people's ability to distinguish and remember faces. They had ...

Megreya and Burton (2008) investigated people's ability to distinguish and remember faces. They had participants watch as target individuals walked to the front of a room and stood there for 30 seconds.

After each
target was presented, a 10-photo array was presented, from which participants were asked to choose who they
had just seen. Subjects' performance in this task was:
a) near perfect; over 95 accuracy
b) excellent; between 80 and 90 recognition
c) mediocre; participants were only right about 2/3 of the time
d) abysmal; participants performed at chance levels

Question 2

Which of these sins of memory is a sin of omission (as opposed to commission)?

a) misattribution
b) suggestibility
c) bias
d) absentmindedness

Question 3

Ella remembers that Eleanor told her that she was admitted to law school. She later finds out that it was Claire, not Eleanor, who told her that she was admitted to law school. This is an example of the memory sin of:

a) persistence
b) bias
c) misattribution
d) suggestibility

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