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Jonathan Schooler and Tonya Engstler-Schooler (1990) conducted an experiment in which participants viewed a film of a bank robbery.Immediately after the film,some participants wrote a detailed description of the robber,whereas others completed an unrelated task.Those participants who wrote a detailed description were later less accurate in picking the robber out of a photo lineup.According to Schooler and Engstler-Schooler,why would participants who first provided a written description be less accurate in their later identifications?


A) Writing a description is stressful and stress interferes with memory.
B) The longer the period between exposure and retrieval, the less accurate the memory.
C) People are generally not good at writing down visual descriptions.
D) Putting a face into words interferes with the visual memory of the face.
E) Using words increases confidence in eyewitnesses' faulty storage.

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