You have a craving for ice cream. In the lunch room, you see a large bowl of pistachio ice cream. Excitedly, you run up to the bowl, only to find that it smells like tuna and is, in fact, a large bowl of tuna fish. You have just experienced
A) sensory adaptation.
B) the Gestalt notion of similarity.
C) the failure of a perceptual hypothesis.
D) camouflage interfering with figure-ground organization.

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You expected to see and smell ice cream based on the appearance of the bowl's contents, but upon closer inspection, you realized it was tuna. This mismatch between expectation and reality is a failure of a perceptual hypothesis, where your initial interpretation of sensory information was incorrect.

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