When 68-year-old Mrs.Blake had a flat tire on a fairly isolated highway,she received help from a passerby in less than 10 minutes.One year later,when she had a flat tire on a busy freeway,an hour elapsed before someone finally stopped to offer assistance.Mrs.Blake's experience best illustrates
A) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
B) the mere exposure effect.
C) altruism.
D) the bystander effect.

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Mrs. Blake's experience exemplifies the bystander effect because on a busy freeway, there were more people around but no one stepped up to help for an hour, which is a classic example of the bystander effect. This happens when individuals don't offer help in an emergency situation because they assume someone else will do it or because they conform to the inaction of other people around them.

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