While Attending a Cocktail Party, You Find You Can Clearly

question 146

Multiple Choice

While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the ________, and the rest of the party is the ________.

• A) figure; ground
• B) object; ground
• C) object; subject
• D) pattern; whole

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Definitions:

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