Suppose That You Are Running to Catch a Subway

question 21

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are running to catch a subway. You race past a large poster that shows various foods in uncharacteristic colors, such as an orange strawberry and a red carrot. However, you actually perceive a red strawberry and an orange carrot. In Anne Treisman's theory, this phenomenon would be called

• A) overactive bottom-up processing.
• B) attentional bias.
• C) a Gestalt.
• D) an illusory conjunction.

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