"Wow! I'm Sorry! I Didn't Recognize You Out of Context!

question 108

Multiple Choice

"Wow! I'm sorry! I didn't recognize you out of context!" you exclaim, excusing your blank stare when your accounting professor greets you in a café. This vignette illustrates the importance of _________ in perception.

• A) transduction
• B) adaptation
• C) bottom-up processes
• D) top-down processes Don't really like this as an indication of top-down processing. I think you could make a better case for it being perceptual set - a person doesn't recognize the professor outside the "set" of the classroom.

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False High

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