Tovah Is Trying to Put Together a Jigsaw Puzzle

question 472

Multiple Choice

Tovah is trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle. Since she has no idea what the completed picture is supposed to be, she has to rely on the shapes and colours of the individual pieces to create and understand the whole picture. We can refer to Tovah's efforts to combine individual elements of the puzzle into a unified whole as

• A)top-down processing.
• B)bottom-up processing.
• C)selective attention.
• D)perceptual organization.
• E)bottom-top processing.

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