What best summarizes the effects of verbal descriptions on eyewitness identification?
A) Verbal descriptions help eyewitness identifications, but only if the verbal descriptions are accurate.
B) Verbal descriptions interfere with eyewitness identifications because they force participants to focus on irrelevant details.
C) Verbal descriptions help when the witness has to make an absolute judgment, but hurt when the witness must make a relative judgment.
D) Verbal descriptions are irrelevant to eyewitness memory because they are encoded by systems that differ from that which encodes visual information.
Correct Answer:
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