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Question 1

What is the difference between top-down and bottom-up processing?

Answer 1

Top-down processing is when you use prior knowledge and information to interpret information. Bottom-up processing is when you process information by taking in the incoming stimuli and organizing it as it comes. This is often when you interpret information that is complex and unfamiliar to you

Question 2

How can perceptual sets influence top-down processing?

Answer 2

When we use prior knowledge to evaluate new information or situations our prior knowledge can influence our perception of the new information.

Question 3

Identify an example of an individual using bottom-up processing.

Answer 3

You are trying to put a puzzle together without ever seeing the completed puzzle.

Question 4

Identify an example of an individual using top-down processing.

Answer 4

You are trying to put a puzzle together and use the picture on the box to complete the puzzle.

Question 5

Explain how top-down processing and proofreaders illusion impact your ability to proofread a paper you wrote

Answer 5

This is when you read a paper and your brain does not notice errors in spelling or grammar. Since you are familiar with the paper you use top-down processing, your brain skips the errors because you know what the paper is supposed to sound like