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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


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d


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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Gracias!

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