Suppose That You Are Working on a Jigsaw Puzzle, and You

question 43

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are working on a jigsaw puzzle, and you need to find a sky-blue corner piece. According to Anne Treisman's theory of attention,

• A) you would find the blue corner piece equally fast, whether the puzzle has 100 piece or 500 pieces.
• B) the number of other corner pieces and the number of other blue pieces would influence the time taken to find the blue corner piece.
• C) you would find the blue corner piece faster than you would find any pieces that are blue.
• D) it would take less time to find that the blue corner piece is not there than to find that it is there.

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