Seeing an Open Door as Rectangular, Even When We Are

question 77

Multiple Choice

Seeing an open door as rectangular, even when we are viewing it from an odd angle and the image hitting our retina is more in the shape of a trapezoid, is an example of

• A) bottom-up processing.
• B) shape constancy.
• C) preattentive processing.
• D) motion parallax.

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