One of the themes of your textbook focuses on bottom-up and top-down processing. According to this theme,
a. the phrase top-down processing points out the importance of the information contained in the stimulus.
b. bottom-up processing is almost always more important than top-down processing.
c. top-down processing is more important in childhood, but bottom-up processing is more important in adulthood.
d. both top-down processing and bottom-up processing operate at the same time, so that our cognitive processes can operate efficiently.
Question 2
According to the discussion of individual differences in Chapter 1 of your textbook,
a. behaviorists pay more attention to individual differences than cognitive psychologists do.
b. cognitive psychologists now emphasize individual differences more than in earlier decades.
c. cognitive psychologists have always studied psychological disorders more than they have studied developmental psychology.
d. cognitive psychologists believe that research about individual differences has some practical applications, but individual differences are not theoretically interesting.
Bottom-up control versus top-down control.
Pacific hagfish resting on the ocean bottom, at 280 m depth off the Oregon coast.
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Slap the foot bottom with the back of the hand. Rapid, light slaps create a stimulating sensation.
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