With false recognition tasks, research has revealed how some information gets encoded in memory. What are some of the possible effects that would be found in studies with a false recognition task? (circle all that apply)
A) participants are more likely to misremember the presence of certain personality traits in a target person if those traits are consistent with traits that were presented with the target person
B) participants tend to confuse male targets with other male targets in a discussion group when determining "who said what," and similarly confuse Black male targets with other Black male targets more so than with other White male targets in the same group
C) when asked to recite a list of remembered words, words that were positioned at the beginning and end of the list are more likely to be remembered
D) the processing speed of remembering stereotype-consistent information is faster than remembering stereotype-inconsistent information

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Research has shown that in false recognition tasks, participants are more likely to misremember information that is consistent with what was presented to them. This means that in task A, participants are more likely to misremember the presence of certain personality traits in a target person if those traits are consistent with the traits that were presented with the target person. In task B, participants are more likely to confuse male targets with other male targets, and Black male targets with other Black male targets, indicating that identity characteristics can also impact false recognition. However, the effects mentioned in options C and D are not related to false recognition tasks.

With False Recognition Tasks, Research Has Revealed How Some Information