In One Reversible Figure/ground Study, Gibson and Peterson (1994) Used

question 10

Multiple Choice

In one reversible figure/ground study, Gibson and Peterson (1994) used an image in which one area looks like a woman when upright, but does not resemble anything when turned upside down. Their general finding was that

• A) meaningfulness of an image had a large effect on figure-ground segregation.
• B) meaningful images were just as likely to be seen as figure or ground.
• C) inverting the entire image lead to slower response times.
• D) meaningfulness only had an effect when the are appeared on the left side.

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