Andrea Rada
PSY-101
Jason Whetten
October 4, 2014
Perception
Option 1
Processing is just another way of describing the way we take information in, analyze it, and draw conclusions from it. Bottom-up processing, also known as inductive reasoning, starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing. Bottom-up processing enables our sensory system to detect lines, angles, and colors. It works in such a way that what you see is what you get. For example, if someone showed me the drawing The Flowering of Love, I would just see a rose. Top-down processing, also known as deductive reasoning, constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experience and expectations. Top-down processing interprets what our senses detect. It uses past events and prior knowledge to draw conclusions. For example, if I were to touch a hot stove for the first time, I would learn that it is hot and it would burn me. The next time I see a hot stove I would use top-down …show more content…
For example, when I go to my math class and I see that my teacher is not in the classroom I know that he will be late because he is always late. This is top-down processing because in my past experiences with this class, he has been late to almost every class. Say it was the first day of school and he was not in class, I might automatically assume that I was in the wrong class or that I showed up on the wrong day. That would be my bottom-up processing because at that moment I would start analyzing and drawing conclusions from the data around me. Another example would be looking at the stars, if I were an astronomer I would use top-down processing and I would see a constellation. Meaning, I would see the whole picture, then I would see the finer details. But since I’m not an astronomer, I would use bottom-up processing and all I would see were the stars. What I see is what I get. Then, I can go back in and try to form pictures with
PSY-101
Jason Whetten
October 4, 2014
Perception
Option 1
Processing is just another way of describing the way we take information in, analyze it, and draw conclusions from it. Bottom-up processing, also known as inductive reasoning, starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing. Bottom-up processing enables our sensory system to detect lines, angles, and colors. It works in such a way that what you see is what you get. For example, if someone showed me the drawing The Flowering of Love, I would just see a rose. Top-down processing, also known as deductive reasoning, constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experience and expectations. Top-down processing interprets what our senses detect. It uses past events and prior knowledge to draw conclusions. For example, if I were to touch a hot stove for the first time, I would learn that it is hot and it would burn me. The next time I see a hot stove I would use top-down …show more content…
For example, when I go to my math class and I see that my teacher is not in the classroom I know that he will be late because he is always late. This is top-down processing because in my past experiences with this class, he has been late to almost every class. Say it was the first day of school and he was not in class, I might automatically assume that I was in the wrong class or that I showed up on the wrong day. That would be my bottom-up processing because at that moment I would start analyzing and drawing conclusions from the data around me. Another example would be looking at the stars, if I were an astronomer I would use top-down processing and I would see a constellation. Meaning, I would see the whole picture, then I would see the finer details. But since I’m not an astronomer, I would use bottom-up processing and all I would see were the stars. What I see is what I get. Then, I can go back in and try to form pictures with