Question

The process of perception involves both bottom-up and top-down processing. Which of the following statements is a characteristic of bottom-up processing?

A) It heavily relies on prior experiences and expectations
B) It involves organizing and interpreting sensory information
C) It starts with higher-level cognitive processes
D) It's driven by expectations and schemas

Answer 1

Bottom-up processing in perception starts with sensory information option (B) and progresses from basic shapes to more complex shapes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Perception involves both bottom-up and top-down processing. Bottom-up processing refers to sensory information option (B) from a stimulus in the environment driving a process. It starts with sensory stimuli that have been registered through receptor cells and the information relayed to the CNS along ascending pathways. In the cerebral cortex, the initial processing of sensory perception progresses to associative processing and integration in multimodal areas of cortex. An example of bottom-up processing is when visual stimuli are recognized as basic shapes, and edges of objects are recognized and built into more complex shapes.