What Is True of Top-Down Processing

question 131

Multiple Choice

What is true of top-down processing?

• A) Top-down processing matches particular features of a given stimulus to objects in visual memory.
• B) Top-down processing utilizes context effects.
• C) Top-down processing only works in cases of ambiguous stimuli.
• D) Top-down processing employs more innate mechanisms of perception than does bottom-up processing.

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