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What are bottom-up processes?
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Sensory driven
Processes that organise incoming information
2
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What are top-down processes?
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Driven by knowledge, experience and expectations
Determine perception in ambiguous settings
3
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What does Huxley state that the function of the brain and nervous system is in his book The Doors of Perception?
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To protect us from being overwhelmed and confused, by shutting out useless information
4
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What is Gestalt perception?
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a theory in psychology explaining how the mind perceives objects as unified wholes rather than collections of parts
Individuals and Populations
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