Your text describes an experiment by Talarico and Rubin (2003) that measured people's memories of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . Which of the following was the primary result of that research?
a. Participants had very little confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the events 32 weeks after they occurred.
b. Participants had a very high level of confidence of the
terrorist events and also had high confidence in theirpresent "everyday" memories 32 weeks later.
c. Participants had high confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the terrorist events 32 weeks later, but when actually tested made significant errors when asked what they were doing on the day of the attacks.
d. After 32 weeks, participants had a high level of confidence in their memories of the terrorist events, butlower belief in their memories of "everyday" events.
d
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