When you use inductive reasoning, you reason from specific facts and construct a general principle from these facts. Thus, inductive reasoning is similar to
a. bottom-up processing.
b. top-down processing.
c. perceptual expectancy.
d. perceptual habituation.
ANSWER: a
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