Question

When exposed to an unfamiliar situation, the brain receives bits of information from the sensory receptors and bases perceptions on those bits of information. This is an example of...

Answer 1

Answer:

Bottom-up processing

Explanation:

The information collected from the environment are used to determine how we interact with our environment. The process and manner that the information derived from our sensory organs are put together, analyzed and understood, and the experience felt consciously is knowns as perception

The order of the process of perception can be such that the perception is comes from and is based on the direct stimuli on our senses which is known as bottom-up processing. Whereby the the observed sensation are rather analyzed and interpreted based on previous knowledge or thought process, the order is referred to as top-down processing.