You are a graduate student in clinical psychology, and you want to study perception in human volunteers. You plan to ask subjects to describe scenes and note in which ways the subjects group (or do not group) the items in each scene. Which approach will you be using?
A. geon encoding
B. perception/action
C. computational
D. Gestalt
Answer: D
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