You Are Participating in a Yearbook Study

question 37

Multiple Choice

You are participating in a yearbook study.The experimenter asks if you can recognize students who went to school with you, and if you can recall their names.After high school you retrieve names and recognize faces with 90% accuracy.The experimenter keeps your yearbooks, and forty years later asks you to identify pictures your classmates and to recall their names.What was the result?

• A)you can't distinguish between who you went to school with and who you didn't
• B)you can recognize with almost 80% accuracy the faces of those you went to school with, but only remember 17% of their names
• C)you can recognize with almost 80% accuracy who you went to school with and their names
• D)you can remember with almost 80% accuracy students' names, but not their faces

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