In an experiment by Bruner, both hungry and non-hungry students briefly saw the same complex visual display, which included various food-related images. When asked immediately afterward what they saw, the hungry students were more likely to have noticed the food-related images than the non-hungry students. This finding gives support to the idea that   a. hungry people are generally more responsive to visual stimuli.   b. food-related images are generally easier to perceive than other sorts of images.   c. people's psychological and physical needs can guide perception.   d. all of the above.

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  1. In an experiment by Bruner, both hungry and non-hungry students briefly saw the same complex visual display, which included various food-related images. When asked immediately afterward what they saw, the hungry students were more likely to have noticed the food-related images than the non-hungry students. This finding gives support to the idea that

      a.

    hungry people are generally more responsive to visual stimuli.

      b.

    food-related images are generally easier to perceive than other sorts of images.

      c.

    people's psychological and physical needs can guide perception.

      d.

    all of the above.

 

QUESTION 22

  1. Perception that recognizes and processes information about individual components of stimuli and then assembles those components is called

      a.

    automatic processing.

      b.

    bottom-up processing.

      c.

    top-down processing

      d.

    detail processing. 

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