A bank teller was so distracted by the site of a bank robbers weapons that she failed to perceive important features of the criminals physical appearance. That's best illustraits the impact of
A) parallel processing
B) change blindness
C) selective attention
D) blindsight
Ans: C) selective attention
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a. experiments capture general psychological processes experienced by all people. b. social psychologists are content with doing inexact science. c. it is expensive to get a random sample of people to participate in research. d. it is pragmatically difficult to get a random sample of people to participate in research.
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