Anne Is Driving Down a Residential Street on a Saturday

Multiple Choice

Anne is driving down a residential street on a Saturday afternoon and expects that she may see children playing outside on such a sunny,warm day.Out of the corner of her eye,she detects movement between two parked cars at the side of the road.She immediately presses the brake,interpreting the movement as that of a child.Later she is relieved to see that the movement came from an empty paper bag that is blowing in the wind.Anne's initial perception of the movement as that of a child can best be explained through the notion of ______.

A) size constancy
B) retinal image
C) template matching
D) top-down processing