Decoding of memory traces as a function of witness' intelligence.
The paper deals with the problem of the effectiveness of interrogation and identification parade (recall and recognition) as a function of witnesses' Intelligence Quotient. Two experiments in photo identification form were performed to verify a hypothesis that IQ does not affect the ability to recognize a human face. The subjects whose average IQ (according to Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale WAIS) was 65.9 (females) and 66.3 (males) obtained the same results as the subjects whose average IQ was 105.3 (females) and 99.5 (males); t1 = 13.77, p1 less than 0.001, t2 = 12.13, p2 less than 0.001, chi 2 = 0, P greater than 0.99.
Department of Criminalistics, Jagellonian University Cracow, Poland.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008606:Mental Processes; D011044:Poland