Bottom-Up Processing

question 59

Multiple Choice

Bottom-up processing

• A) focuses on the contribution of the stimulus to object recognition.
• B) emphasizes that we can pay attention to several objects simultaneously.
• C) emphasizes that our higher mental processes facilitate object recognition.
• D) occurs only after top-down processing has been completed.

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Definitions:

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