A karate instructor looked at his new batch of students and automatically recognized that there were three girls and six boys. In this case, the karate instructor is involved in the act of:

a. organizing the stimuli by simplicity.
b. organizing the stimuli by pattern.
c. interpreting the stimuli.
d. conscious processing.


b. organizing the stimuli by pattern.
In this case, the karate instructor is involved in the act of organizing the stimuli by pattern. The brain makes sense of complex stimuli by relating them to things it already recognizes. For example, when we see a crowd of people, instead of perceiving each individual, we may focus on sex and "see" men and women or on age and "see" children, teens, and adults.

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