Your prescribed textbook describes an experiment by Talarico and Rubin (2003) that measured people’s memories of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Which of the following was the primary result of that research?

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After 32 weeks, participants had a high level of confidence in their memories of the terrorist events, but lower belief in their memories of 'everyday' events.

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After 32 weeks, participants had a low level of confidence in their memories of the terrorist 	events, but a higher belief in their memories of “everyday” events.

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Participants had high confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the terrorist events 32 weeks later, but when actually tested, they made significant errors when asked what they were doing on the day of the attacks.

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Participants had very little confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the events 32 weeks after they occurred.

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