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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Definitions:

Memory

The mental capacity for storing and retrieving information.

Short-term Memory

Retaining a small volume of information actively on hand in the brain for a quick moment.

Forgetting

The loss or inability to recall information that was previously encoded into long-term memory.

Seconds

The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.