Memory Distortion of Face Recognition Relating to Age
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2009
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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College students were recruited from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges (N=60, 40 females) to study the effect of verbal descriptions on memory distortion. Verbal descriptions representing three age groups (young, middle, old) were presented alongside morphed faces of a different age group and subjects were asked to estimate the age of the face. Individual faces were morphed to represent the same face at three ages in life: 30, 45 and 60. Control groups did not see verbal descriptions. In a surprise recognition task, subjects were instructed to select which of two morphed faces they had seen previously. The study found that subjects in the verbal description group made more false recognitions of the face, showing the verbal descriptions distorted memory encoding and retrieval.