In a Classic Study on Memory, the Researcher Showed People

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Multiple Choice

In a classic study on memory, the researcher showed people 2,560 photographs at a rate of one every ten seconds.Each person was then shown 280 pairs of photographs with each pair having an "old" picture (from the first set of photos) and a similar "new" image.The subjects were able to tell which photograph they had seen before in what percent of the paired photographs?

• A) only five percent
• B) 15 to 25 percent
• C) 45 to 55 percent
• D) 85 to 95 percent

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