Author Question: When people estimate their confidence while providing eyewitness testimony, a. they are typically ... (Read 49 times)

drink · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When people estimate their confidence while providing eyewitness testimony,

a. they are typically more correct than they estimate themselves to be.
b. they are almost as confident about their incorrect memories as they are about their correct memories.
c. their confidence about their eyewitness testimony is strongly correlated with the accuracy of the testimony.
d. their confidence is reduced because of the constructivist effect.

Question 2

Which of the following statements most accurately captures the point of view called the false-memory perspective with respect to childhood sexual abuse?

a. As adults, people construct an incorrect memory about abuse, and they believe that the abuse actually did occur.
b. As adults, people are encouraged to report an incorrect memory about abuse, but they actually know that the abuse did not occur.
c. As adults, people construct an incorrect memory that their childhood was actually quite pleasant, and they cover up their actual experience of abuse.
d. As children, people construct an incorrect memory about abuse, but as adults, they realize that the abuse did not occur.