Ernest Has Three Engineering Degrees

question 152

Multiple Choice

Ernest has three engineering degrees.He has hired an interior decorator to update his home.He is tremendously frustrated when he asks what he thinks are simple questions about weight-bearing walls and insulation requirements,and the designer is unable to understand.Yet Ernest has the same problems when the designer starts talking about mauve,cerise,and magenta.Why is the communication process not working in this instance?

• A)The channel is hindered.
• B)Noise is interfering with both encoding and decoding.
• C)The wrong medium has been used.
• D)The sender and receiver do not share overlapping frames of reference.

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Definitions:

Prosopagnosia

A neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.

Sensory Receptors

Specialized cells or structures that respond to external stimuli by generating nerve impulses.

Bottom-up Processing

An information processing approach where perception starts with the stimulus itself, building up to the final conceptual interpretation.

Top-down Processing

A cognitive process that involves interpreting sensory information based on context, expectations, and prior knowledge.