Cece finds that she can immediately pick out her friends from her sorority when paging through her college yearbook.This is most likely an example of the influence of ____ on perceptual selection.
A) intensity
B) familiarity
C) novelty
D) contrast

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Familiarity refers to our tendency to notice and pay more attention to stimuli that we are familiar with. Cece's ability to pick out her friends from her sorority in the yearbook suggests that familiarity is influencing her perceptual selection.

Cece Finds That She Can Immediately Pick Out Her Friends