While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the ________,
and the rest of the party is the ________.
a. figure; ground
b. object; ground
c. object; subject
d. pattern; whole
Answer: a
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