The Tendency for the Presence of a Weapon to Draw

question 80

Multiple Choice

The tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify a culprit is called the

• A)weapon-focus effect.
• B)distraction effect.
• C)inattention phenomenon.
• D)CSI effect.

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