Suppose that a friend missed class and asks you to tell him, word for word, about the professor's description of the next assignment

Your description captures the basic message, even though none of your sentences is precisely what your professor said. This phenomenon is a good example of
a. abstraction.
b. boundary extension.
c. change blindness.
d. a script.

Ans: a

Psychology

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