Your child attends a school that requires use of 1 of 4 different uniforms.You lament that it is often difficult to spot your child in the crowd of children.The difficulty is due to a search involving
A)feature search.
B)vigilance.
C)divided attention.
D)conjunction search.

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Conjunction search is the process of searching for a target that shares multiple features with distractors. In this case, the target is the child wearing the specific uniform, which is a combination of different features. This type of search takes longer and is more difficult than feature search, where the target has a unique feature, or vigilance, where the target is rare and easily detected, or divided attention, where multiple targets are presented simultaneously.

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