“…However, where many similar items are encountered on the test and where lures share many similarities with targets, still higher levels of environmental support might be required by seniors and, in some cases, by young adults as well (see Koutstaal & Schacter, 2002, for a review). Instructions designed to facilitate recall of original contextualcues can, on occasion, reduce false choosing in eyewitness tasks (Cutler, Penrod, & Martens, 1997;Gwyer & Clifford, 1997;Kraffka & Penrod, 1985;Malpass & Devine, 1981;Smith & Vela, 1992), although several studies report null effects (e.g., Fisher, Quigley, Brock, Chin, & Cutler, 1990;Searcy et al, 2001). In the present study, we manipulated environmental support by comparing a standard lineup condition with one in which participants were encouraged to recollect context and to base recollection on what they had seen in the video.…”