Table 3.
Discriminability prediction | Theoretical basis | Figure | |
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Main effects | 1) Full target > internal target | Face processing literature | 2 |
2) Match > mismatch | Encoding specificity | 3 | |
3) Lineups > showups | DFT | 4 | |
4) Full face(s) at retrieval > internal face(s) at retrieval | DFT | 5 | |
Simple effects | 5) Full-full > full-internal | Encoding specificity | 6 |
6) Internal-internal > internal-full | Encoding specificity | 6 | |
7) Internal-internal showup > internal-full showup | Encoding specificity | 7 | |
8) Full-full showup > full-internal showup | Encoding specificity | 7 | |
9) Full-full lineup > full-internal lineup | Encoding specificity | 8 | |
*10) Internal-internal lineup ≥ internal-full lineup | DFT | 8 |
DFT = Diagnostic feature-detection theory; *The ≥ symbol here represents the fact that we expect these two conditions to be either equivalent or with a small discriminability advantage for Internal-Internal. However, critically, we expect this difference (if significant), to be weaker than for the other match versus mismatch predictions. This expectation is due to an assumed DFT process of discounting of non-diagnostic information, which should occur for lineups and not for showups. According to DFT, discounting of non-diagnostic information in lineups boosts discriminability, which we expect to either bring Internal-Full Lineup up to the level of Internal-Internal Lineup, or at least closer than for showups