As Part of an Experiment,Amanda Is Seated in Front of a Blank

question 168

Multiple Choice

As part of an experiment,Amanda is seated in front of a blank computer screen.On each trial,a line appears on the screen and then an object appears above the line.The task is to name the object as rapidly as possible.The object is either presented alone or within a scene.For example,a chicken may be presented alone or in a barnyard.People are significantly faster at naming the object when it is presented in the scene.This result is evidence for:

• A) bottom-up processing in visual perception
• B) top-down processing in visual perception
• C) the role of context in figure-ground segmentation
• D) a cognitive application of the Gestalt laws

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