Christian, a Caucasian man, and Sung-Yee, a Korean man, are walking to their cars when an Asian man pulls out a knife and demands their wallets

In a lineup, Christian cannot tell which man is the one who attacked him, but Sung-Yee has no problem identifying the culprit. This is an example of
a. source-monitoring.
b. bystander apathy.
c. selective attention.
d. the own-race bias.


Answer: D

Psychology

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