Question

What kind of processing is exemplified by the following scenario? Esther’s mother offers her a new dish she’s been working on―a raisin-jalapeno quiche. Esther’s body responds first: Esther eyes the content of the skillet, and smells the mix of raisins, jalapenos, and eggs. Her stomach churns and she looks away. Feeling disgust and disappointment, she says “I’m not hungry.”
(A) bottom-up
(B) sensory adaptation
(C) top-down
(D) vertical-horizontal

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) bottom-up.

The kind of processing that is exemplified by the following scenario is bottom-up processing.

This is the scenario: Esther’s mother offers her a new dish she’s been working on―a raisin-jalapeno quiche. Esther’s body responds first: Esther eyes the content of the skillet, and smells the mix of raisins, jalapenos, and eggs. Her stomach churns and she looks away. Feeling disgusted and disappointment, she says “I’m not hungry.”

When we are talking about bottom-up processing, we are referring to one of the two processes implicated in perception. The other one is Top-down. Bottom-up means processing sensory information as it is coming into the mind. If you see something very quickly and disappears, your eyes send the image to your brain and it starts to build up the necessary information so you can have a picture of what you saw.

Answer 2

The answer is A. Bottom-up is the processing that is exemplified by the following scenario.

 

EXPLANATION

There are two kinds of general processes about perception and sensation: bottom-up processing and top-down processing. Bottom-up processing means that sensory information is being processed while coming in. For example, when a random photo popped on your phone screen, your eyes will detect the features of the photo, and the brain will process it together. The result of the processing is a picture of a cat. Bottom-up started with sensory information coming in, from the tiniest parts of sensory information that turned into a result at the end.

 

Meanwhile, top-down processing means that perception is driven by cognition. The brain uses what it wants and expects to perceive, then they fill the blanks, so to speak. The example is seeing the shape of a box at the left side. The brain perceives the box as two vertical lines and three horizontal lines. There is no need to give it a specific meaning, so there is no top-down processing happening.

 

In the question, Esther’s eyes and nose respond first to the sensory of a raisin-jalapeno quiche. This is considered as bottom-up processing because sensory information is being processed as it was coming in.  

LEARN MORE

If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we recommend you to also take a look at the following questions:

Conditioned and unconditioned stimulus: brainly.com/question/4734131

Freud’s ides of unconcious mind: brainly.com/question/10516771

KEYWORD: processing, bottom-up, sensory

Subject: Social studies

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: Bottom-up processing