Bottom-up processing is to ____ as top-down processing is to ____

a. ?properties of the stimulus; prior knowledge
b. ?non-scientific reasoning; scientific reasoning
c. ?vision; audition
d. ?Gestalt psychology; cognitive psychology


ANSWER:
a

Psychology

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