Author Question: Megreya and Burton (2008) investigated people's ability to distinguish and remember faces. They had ... (Read 20 times)

jman1234 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

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