You've been having 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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The scenario described involves a failure of a perceptual hypothesis. The person expected to see and smell ice cream, but instead the senses picked up a different stimulus - tuna fish - which did not match the perceptual hypothesis. This mismatch caused surprise and confusion.

You've Been Having a Craving for Ice Cream