A group of experimental participants are shown a photo of a stuffed bear placed on a large dining room table. The photographer 'zooms in' and the image is taken relatively close to the stuffed animal, such that the bear takes up approximately 50% of the space in the photo (the remaining 50% is table). If the participants are asked to draw a picture that reproduces the photo they saw, based on prior work (Intraub et al., 1996, 1998), what error would you expect?
A)The memory for the photo will be 'zoomed in' too close, with the bear taking up more than 50% of the total space in the photo.
B)The memory for the photo will be 'zoomed out' too far, with the bear taking up less than 50% of the total space in the photo.
C)None of these responses options follows from work discussed in your textbook.
D)Given the 50/50 split between the object (bear) and background (table), and the relative importance of the object, the colour for the background will be wrong.
E)Given the 50/50 split between the object (bear) and background (table), and the relative importance of the background, the colour for the object will be wrong.

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Based on the research by Intraub et al., people tend to remember scenes with a wider field of view than was actually present, leading to a 'boundary extension' error where the bear would be remembered as taking up less space.

A Group of Experimental Participants Are Shown a Photo of a Stuffed