Palmer (1975) Conducted a Classic Experiment in Which Participants Viewed

question 38

Multiple Choice

Palmer (1975) conducted a classic experiment in which participants viewed a kitchen scene, after which they rapidly viewed images of a loaf of bread, a similarly shaped mailbox, and a drum. Which statement BEST explains the participants' better recognition of the bread than the other objects?

• A) Knowledge of the context in which an object usually appears facilitates perception of it.
• B) The Context in which an object usually appears hinders the perception of it.
• C) The context in which an object usually appears neither facilitates nor hinders its perception.
• D) Perception of an object depends only on extraction of features of the object.

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Definitions:

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