The Lights Around the Movie Marquee Flashed on and Off

question 154

Multiple Choice

The lights around the movie marquee flashed on and off in succession. However, Jerome did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. What is this type of perception known as?

• A)phi phenomenon
• B)preattentive processing
• C)feature detection
• D)bottom-up processing

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Definitions:

Subgoals

Smaller, achievable objectives set as steps that contribute towards the attainment of a larger goal.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that involves making judgments based on how much one entity represents, or is similar to, another entity.

Insight

The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something.