Recently,curators at Museums Have Experienced Problems with the Preservation of Plastic

question 52

Multiple Choice

Recently,curators at museums have experienced problems with the preservation of plastic objects,almost all of which disintegrate over time.The Smithsonian collection contains the first-ever plastic toothbrush,which soon will be nothing more than a pile of crumbs.This problem is leading many historians to worry that we will lose the history of our

• A) symbolic culture.
• B) signs and gestures.
• C) linguistic relativity.
• D) material culture.

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Definitions:

Parallel Processing

denotes the brain's capacity to process multiple pieces of information simultaneously, allowing for tasks like visual recognition to occur quickly and efficiently.

Inattentional Blindness

The failure to notice a fully visible but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object.

Dual Processing

Dual processing theory suggests that thought can arise in two different ways, or as a result of two different processes, often at the conscious and subconscious levels simultaneously.

Change Blindness

A perceptual phenomenon where a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer, indicating the limitations of human attention.