You have a craving for ice cream. In the lunch room, you see a large bowl of pistachio ice cream. Excitedly, you run up to the bowl, only to find that it smells like tuna and is, in fact, a large bowl of tuna fish. You have just experienced

a. sensory adaptation.
b. the Gestalt notion of similarity.
c. the failure of a perceptual hypothesis.
d. camouflage interfering with figure-ground organization.


c

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a. ?zygote b. ?ovum c. ?embryo d. ?fetus

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