Chapter 2 discusses a study by Burton and his colleagues on people's ability to identify a face that is shown in a video security system. According to the results of this study,
a. people are especially likely to be confident that they correctly identified a person's face if they are familiar with this person.
b. people are surprisingly accurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons.
c. people are surprisingly inaccurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons.
d. compared to other people, police officers are more accurate on this face-recognition task.
Ans: a
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