Imagine That You Need to Meet Someone at the Airport

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you need to meet someone at the airport. You would notice him more quickly if he had told you "Look for the only person wearing a hat" than if he told you, "Look for the only person not wearing a hat." This situation is most similar to

A) the Stroop effect.
B) the isolated-feature/combined-feature effect.
C) the feature-present/feature-absent effect.
D) Wolfe's finding that we detect a target more accurately if the target appears frequently, rather than rarely.