Suppose you're driving on a two-lane road on a very snowy night where the highway divider cannot be seen. However, in your mind, you're able to reconstruct where the divider should be. This example illustrates ________

a) middle-up processing
b) top-down processing
c) bottom-up processing
d) a perceptual set


ANS: B, In top-down processing, the expectation of what we will encounter is what initiates the perception process.

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