AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Perception. Bottom-up processing is the process of ‘sensation’ and top-down is the process of ‘perception’. Sensation is the input of sensory information from our external environment that is received by our sensory receptors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Apperceptive agnosia refers to a failure of pattern recognition caused by an inability to categorize objects at a perceptual level of analysis. Associative agnosia, by contrast, is caused by an inability to categorize objects at a functional semantic level of analysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -The context creates an expectation that, top-down, influence our perception. the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Perceptual Set. A perceptual set is a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another (top-down processing). Through experience we form concepts, or schemas, that organize and interpret unfamiliar information.