Question

As a child, every time you went to a place with large crowds, your mother had you wear a bright colored shirt. She knew that it would be easier to spot you in the crowd by the color of your shirt. She was making use of the ____. A. effect B. feature search C. color (hue) familiarity D. pop-out aha! E. brightness

Answer 1

B. feature search

Step-by-step explanation:

Feature search is the ability people have to look for a specific feature in an environment.

Here, my mother would always make me wear a bright colored shirt. This would make me stand out in the crowd as I was the only one with the bright colored shirt. She could easily scan the crowd and identify me with the bright colored shirt.

Hence, she was use of the feature search.