Silvaggio, Andrew D
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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2003. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures. -- Contents: Thesis.
Sequential Photospread techniques were compared with simultaneous Photospread techniques to determine if one technique was more effective than the other. The effect of administrator knowledge was also measured. Post-secondary students participated (N=117), some as witnesses viewed a 20 second mock robbery video and then they participated in a Photospread identification procedure. Five students per class were randomly assigned to be administrators; these students did not watch the video. Administrators were randomly assigned to either a sequential blind, sequential informed, simultaneous blind or simultaneous informed condition. Sequential lineup presentation produced significantly fewer false positives (54.5%) then simultaneous lineup presentation (79.1%), Z=2.43,p=0.008. There was no statistically significant difference in the number of suspect false identifications in the blind condition (27.9%) compared with the informed condition (25%),Z=0.31,p=0.621.