A student in a geometry class watches as the teacher hastily draws various geometric shapes on the blackboard. The student's ability to see the incomplete figures as complete can be best attributed to the perceptual process of

a. closure.
b. figure and ground.
c. temporal integration.
d. good continuation.

Answer: a. closure.

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