Even though you "proofread" your term paper, the teacher
returns your term paper with circles around several words in which you left out a letter when typing, such as "th" for "the" and "drivng" for "driving." Your tendency to add letters to these words when proofreading illustrates which perceptual principle?
a. closure
b. contiguity
c. figure-ground
d. common region
ANSWER: a
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