As you sit back at the baseball game, you perceive the ball being pitched, the batter hitting it, the ball shooting high into center field, and being caught. The structuralist would argue that this perception is:

A. the result of figure-ground, simplicity, and continuity
B. influenced by your prior experience with the game
C. created because the brain follows certain rules of perceptual organization
D. formed by many basic units or elements


Answer: D

Psychology

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