Goldstein (2015) states that “perception can involve a process similar to reasoning or problem solving” (p. 52). For example, I have woken up in the middle of the night and as my eyes were adjusting to being open I have thought a person was standing in my room. As I focused on what I thought was the person I started to realize that the shape I perceived as the person was in fact just my dresser across the room. The blob started to take the shape of a rectangle and my brain started to recognize that what I was actually looking at was my dresser. “Bottom-up processing is the sequence of events from the eye to the brain when environmental energy stimulates the receptors. Whereas top-down processing takes into consideration factors such
