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The idea that people living in urban, industrialized environments have a great deal of perceptual experience in judging lines, corners, edges, and other rectangular, manufactured objects, and consequently are more susceptible to the müller-lyer illusions is referred to as the:

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Options to this question are:

A) Mere exposure effect.
B) Opponent-process theory.
C) Carpentered-world hypothesis.
D) Frequency theory.

Correct answer choice is:

C) Carpentered-world hypothesis.

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The designed surroundings of commercial societies, containing various artifacts created from straight lines and right angles. The absence of such objects in social group cultures of Black Africa was advised in 1967 by the South African scientist William Hudson as a proof for the apparent inability of social group Africans to interpret appearance in pictorial depth perception and their relative lack of condition to the Muller-Lyer illusion and connected visual illusions, this notion being referred to as the carpentered-world hypothesis.
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The correct answer is the carpentered world hypothesis. This is being defined as having an absence of objects in tribal cultures that take place in the sub-Saharan Africa. It explains of tribal African’s inability in interpreting the linear perspective in regards of their pictorial depth perception.