Cleary Et Al

Multiple Choice

Cleary et al. (2012) suspected that one potential cause of the déjà vu experience is misplaced familiarity.That is, a scene looks familiar because of its similarity to another scene that is in memory but that fails to be recalled.They tested this by:

A) observing natural déjà vu experiences by observing people at familiar landmarks in major cities.
B) making participants move through virtual three-dimensional environments using virtual reality glasses.Some of the environments had identical geometry to others.
C) showing old movies and seeing if familiar landmarks provoked déjà vu experiences.
D) asking participants to make déjà vu judgments on common words, deciding whether they had heard them or not earlier in the experiment.