Dave was driving down the highway when he saw something up ahead in the road. At first he thought it was an animal, but it turned out to be a ladder. Dave’s initial perception of the animal is most likely due to ____

a. ?bottom-up perceptual processing
b. ?top-down perceptual processing
c. ?closure
d. ?good-continuation


ANSWER:
b

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