LeAnn had her purse snatched as she walked out to her car.The police who are investigating the crime ask LeAnn to try to pick the purse-snatcher out of a line-up of eight suspects.The police are basically using

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A recognition task involves presenting options and asking the witness to identify which one is familiar or matches the description of the perpetrator. In this case, LeAnn is being asked to pick the purse-snatcher out of a line-up, which is a recognition task. Recall task would involve asking LeAnn to describe the perpetrator without any prompts or options, while transfer-appropriate encoding refers to using the same type of processing during encoding and retrieval to enhance memory recall. Misinformation task involves introducing incorrect or misleading information to distort the witness's memory.

LeAnn Had Her Purse Snatched as She Walked Out to Her