Imagine that you need to meet someone at the airport. You would notice him more quickly if he had told you "Look for the only person wearing a hat" than if he told you, "Look for the only person not wearing a hat." This situation is most similar to
a. the Stroop effect.
b. the isolated-feature/combined-feature effect.
c. the feature-present/feature-absent effect.
d. Wolfe's finding that we detect a target more accurately if the target appears frequently, rather than rarely.
Ans: c
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