When You Use Deductive Reasoning, You Start with a General

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Multiple Choice

When you use deductive reasoning, you start with a general principle and deduce specific information from this principle. Thus, deductive reasoning is similar to

• A)convergence.
• B)bottom-up processing.
• C)top-down processing.
• D)perceptual accommodation.

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