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The '''memory confusion protocol''' is a technique used by [[Social psychology|social psychologists]] to discover whether [[Human subject research|subject]]s are [[Categorization|categorizing]] [[individual]]s into groups and, if so, what characteristics they are using to do so - without the knowledge of the subjects, in order to reduce the risk that subjects will try to conceal their reasons. The technique has three main steps:

#Subjects are shown [[photograph]]s of the individuals and are asked to form impressions of them.

#The subjects then see a set of [[sentenceSentence (linguistics)|sentences]]s, each of which is paired with a photograph of the individual who said it.

#Subjects are not forewarned of the final step, a surprise [[Recollection|recall]] task: the sentences are presented in random order, and the subjects must attribute each to the correct individual.