Being able to pick out your sister's comments from a babble of voices at a party illustrates the organizational principle of
A)figure-ground organization.
B)alternative patterning.
C)perceptual freezing.
D)selection of empathetic other.
E)attention to the irritating.

Question

Being able to pick out your sister's comments from a babble of voices at a party illustrates the organizational principle of​
A)​figure-ground organization.
B)​alternative patterning.
C)​perceptual freezing.
D)​selection of empathetic other.
E)​attention to the irritating.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Figure-ground organization refers to the ability to focus on a specific stimulus or person (the figure) while ignoring other distracting stimuli or background noise (the ground). In this scenario, being able to pick out the sister's comments indicates the person is able to separate her sister's voice (the figure) from the other voices at the party (the ground).

Being Able to Pick Out Your Sister's Comments from a Babble