Top-Down Mechanisms Suggest

question 25

Multiple Choice

Top-down mechanisms suggest:

• A) upright stimuli are processed faster than inverted stimuli
• B) faces are processed faster than other body parts or inanimate objects
• C) processing can be driven by knowledge and expectations
• D) incoming information about a stimulus activates feature detectors

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