Pozzulo line ups

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What was the main aim of Pozzulo et al.'s study?

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To explore the role of social and cognitive factors in children’s identification of target faces in line-ups

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What specific ability of children did the study aim to investigate?

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Whether children are less able to recognize human faces compared to adults

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What did the study aim to compare regarding false positive identifications?

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Whether children make more false positives than adults in target-absent versus target-present line-ups.

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What is a target-absent line-up?

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A line-up where the target is not present, and participants must correctly reject all options

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What is a target-present line-up?

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A line-up where the target is present among similar-looking foils, and participants must correctly identify them

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What type of experiment was Pozzulo et al.'s study?

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A laboratory experiment.

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What was the first independent variable in the study?

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Age – young children or adults.

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What was the second independent variable in the study?

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Nature of target faces – familiar cartoon characters or unfamiliar human faces.

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What was the third independent variable in the study?

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Type of line-up – target-present or target-absent

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Which independent variable used an independent measures design?

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Age – young children or adults