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

• 'What am I seeing'?

• Bottom up 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. 

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