A photograph of a young girl wearing a hat is cropped so that the top and edges of the hat are no longer in the picture. In trying to draw the picture from memory, Phil draws the
entire hat, including the top and edges that were missing from the original photo. This is
an example of:

Question

A photograph of a young girl wearing a hat is cropped so that the top and edges of the hat are no longer in the picture. In trying to draw the picture from memory, Phil draws the
 entire hat, including the top and edges that were missing from the original photo. This is
 an example of:

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Boundary extension is the tendency to remember more of a scene than what was actually seen, leading to the reconstruction of unseen parts of the image. In this case, Phil remembered and drew the missing parts of the hat that were not in the original photograph, which is an example of boundary extension. The other options are not relevant to the situation described.

A Photograph of a Young Girl Wearing a Hat Is