Cindy and Linda Are Both Eyewitnesses to a Bank Robbery

question 28

Multiple Choice

Cindy and Linda 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 at which Cindy works. Linda has never seen Mike before. With this background:

• A) Cindy's identification is more valuable to the police because she has an advantage of familiarity and context
• B) both identifications are likely to be accurate because face recognition draws on specialized mechanisms that work effectively with both familiar and unfamiliar faces
• C) Cindy's identification is more valuable to the police because her recognition of Mike will be more fluent than Linda's, thanks to the previous encounters
• D) Linda's identification is more valuable to the police because Cindy may have been misled by the fact that Mike seemed familiar because of her other encounters with him

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Definitions:

Highest Occupied

Pertaining to the highest energy level that contains electrons in an atom or molecule under ground state conditions.

Molecular Orbital

A region in a molecule where electrons are most likely to be found, representing the quantum mechanical behavior of electrons in molecules.

Conjugated Pi System

A molecular structure where alternating single and double bonds allow electrons to be more delocalized and contribute to the molecule's stability.

LUMO

The Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital is the orbital with the lowest energy level capable of accepting an electron.