The analysis of information starting with pre-existing knowledge in order to organize features into a meaningful whole is known as

a. perceptual expectancy.
b. top-down processing.
c. bottom-up processing.
d. Gregory's phenomenon.


Ans: b. top-down processing.

Psychology

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