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darbym82

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When Gene is at a convenience store, he sees a robbery take place and hides behind a large display to avoid being victimized. Later he tells the police that he thinks that an African American woman was the culprit, and he points to the woman talking to a police officer on the other side of the parking lot. He doesn't realize that she actually owns the store and was working stocking a shelf near where the robbery occurred. Gene's memory that the woman was there but failure to recognize the circumstances under which he saw her is called the ____ bias.
 
  a. familiarity-induced
  b. ultimate attribution
  c. nullification
  d. availability

Question 2

James is not satisfied with his 5 million annual salary because he feels that other basketball All-Stars are paid far more money. James' dissatisfaction is most likely the result of
 
  a. realistic conflict theory.
  b. in group favoritism.
  c. out group homogeneity.
  d. relative deprivation.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d



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