A second stimulus is presented shortly after the first item in the same location and "erases" the original stimulus.This is called
A)stimulus blocking.
B)synesthesia.
C)visuospatial sketchpad.
D)backward visual masking.

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This phenomenon is known as backward visual masking, where the second stimulus erases the traces of the first stimulus. This is a common technique used in experiments on visual perception to study the processing of visual information. Choice A and B are not relevant to this phenomenon, and Choice C refers to a different aspect of visual perception.

A Second Stimulus Is Presented Shortly After the First Item