Psychology / Unit 4 Psych 0376 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bottom-Up Processing
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The idea
Bottom-up processing builds a perception from the incoming sensory data upward, without prior expectation.
In practice
Reading an unfamiliar word letter by letter, with no guess available in advance.
Where people slip
Pure bottom-up processing is rare in adults. It appears most clearly with genuinely novel stimuli.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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