Psychologist Dr. David Park argues that eyewitness confidence is a poor predictor of accuracy, despite juries treating confident witnesses as more reliable.
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readingWhich research finding would best support Park's accuracy-confidence dissociation claim?
A
DNA evidence has exonerated innocent people
B
Eye movements during identification showed equally confident witnesses were correct only 60% of the time, with high-confidence identifications no more accurate than low-confidence ones
C
Witnesses sometimes change testimony
D
Memory is reconstructive
Correct Answer: B
Choice B is the best answer. Objective accuracy data showing no confidence-accuracy correlation proves the dissociation.
💡 Strategy: Claims about correlations (or lack thereof) need statistical relationship data.