Question

Later that night, Melly gets up to get a drink of water from the kitchen. She does not turn on any lights as she makes her way past stacks of boxes in the living room. Briefly, she is frightened by what looks like a man standing in the corner of the room. But then she realizes that it is only a coat she has thrown on a hook. Based on the scenario described, how do each of the following concepts explain Melly's actions?
Feature detection
Dark adaptation
Top-down processing

Answer 1

My guess would be "dark adaptation"