U2AOS2 - Bottom up, top down processing (2)

Match the following

• Top down processing definition

• Information processing where perceptual experiences are created by building larger wholes from tiny aspects (features) of sensory data.

• Top down processing example

• 'Have i seen this before?'

• Bottom up processing definition

•  Information processing where psychological, social and contextual information is applied to and influence the perception of stimuli. 

• Bottom up processing example

• 'What am I seeing'?

Your five senses receiving information and sending it to your brain is an example of...

• Sensation

• Bottom up processing

• Perception

• Top down processing

Using past experiences and developed schemas stored in your brain to make sense of what you are seeing is an example of.....

• Sensation

• Bottom up processing

• Perception

• Top down processing

What are our five senses?

• Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin

• Occipital, parietal, temporal, frontal, cerebellum

• Visual, auditory, olfactory, taste, touch

What are the primary receptor cells in our body?

• Eye, tongue, ear, skin, nose

• Under our skin surface

• Cons/rods, taste buds, hair and bones in inner ear, nerve endings at skin surface, hair cells of olfactory membrane

• Somatosensory cortex of the brain