When You First Look at a Certain Painting by Salvador

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Multiple Choice

When you first look at a certain painting by Salvador Dalí, you see an archway filled with people fighting. But when you look a bit longer, the archway seems to become a horse and many of the people become textures in the landscape. As you continue to look, your perception keeps flip-flopping. This phenomenon, known as a "reversible image," exemplifies which general principle about human perception?

• A) The same stimulus can be parsed in more than one way.
• B) Ambiguous figures will gradually fade away as we habituate to them.
• C) We attend to the stimulus that is most meaningful at the time.
• D) Only a few basic perceptual abilities are inborn.

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