What Best Summarizes the Effects of Verbal Descriptions on Eyewitness

question 38

Multiple Choice

What best summarizes the effects of verbal descriptions on eyewitness identification?

• A)Verbal descriptions help eyewitness identifications, but only if the verbal descriptions are accurate.
• B)Verbal descriptions interfere with eyewitness identifications because they force participants to focus on irrelevant details.
• C)Verbal descriptions help when the witness has to make an absolute judgment, but hurt when the witness must make a relative judgment.
• D)Verbal descriptions are irrelevant to eyewitness memory because they are encoded by systems that differ from that which encodes visual information.

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