Bert Has Just Baked a Large Sheet of Perfectly Round

question 150

Multiple Choice

Bert has just baked a large sheet of perfectly round, delicious cookies. When Bert leaves the room briefly, Cookie Monster takes a half-moon-shaped bite out of one of the cookies and replaces it into the array of cookies. Bert returns to the room and looks at the cookies, but misses the fact that Cookie Monster has taken a bite out of one of them. What gestalt grouping factor of perceptual organization may explain why Bert fails to see the bite taken out of the cookie?

• A) figure-ground separation
• B) proximity
• C) similarity
• D) subjective contours

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