Kim and Jordan Are Both Eyewitnesses to a Bank Robbery

question 186

Multiple Choice

Kim and Jordan are both eyewitnesses to a bank robbery. At the police station they each select Mike from a police lineup, and say, "He's the thief." It turns out though, that Mike has been a customer at the store where Kim works. Jordan has never seen Mike before. With this background, whose identification of Mike is more valuable to the police?

• A) Jordan's because Kim may have been misled by the fact that Mike seemed familiar based on her other encounters with him
• B) Kim's because she had an advantage of seeing many people come in and out of the store and she is accustomed to identifying faces
• C) Both because memory for faces is not distortable
• D) Kim's because her recognition of Mike is more powerful due to the previous encounters with him

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