Suppose that you are looking at a flower garden containing dozens of yellow tulips and one red tulip, which seems to stand out conspicuously. According to Anne Treisman's theory, the explanation for this phenomenon is that
a. you probably searched all the tulips serially.
b. focused attention drew your attention to the one discrepant feature.
c. you automatically processed some featuresâ€"such as the color of the flowerâ€"during distributed attention.
d. you were searching for a conjunction of two properties.
Ans: c
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