Suppose that you are looking for a dark-colored car in a row of parked cars. Eleven of them are light colored, and one is dark colored. The dark-colored car seems to pop out. In this example,
a. you are using focused attention.
b. you are using bottom-up processing.
c. you are demonstrating the feature-present/feature-absent effect.
d. a dark-colored object is more likely to stimulate the movement-detection cells in the retina.
Ans: b
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