Your text states that the salience of a gun draws a witness' attention away from the face of the perpetrator, reducing the witness' ability to later identify the perpetrator. This suggests that the effect of the weapon occurred mainly during:
A)encoding
B)consolidation
C)retrieval
D)recall

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The effect of the weapon drawing attention away from the perpetrator's face impacts the initial observation and memory formation phase, which is the encoding stage. This is when the witness is first observing the event and encoding the details into memory.

Your Text States That the Salience of a Gun Draws