On Halloween night, Jackie and some friends visited an abandoned house that was said to be haunted. Jackie heard a strange noise and was convinced that she had heard the footsteps of a ghost. But Beth, who also heard the sound,insisted that it was just a broken door rattling in the wind.Jackie's interpretation probably reflects:
A) the law of Prägnanz.
B) her clairvoyant ability to detect the presence of the ghost.
C) her perceptual set that the house was haunted.
D) a perceptual illusion, called induced motion.
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