The view that the perceiver picks up the information afforded by the environment naturally and essentially, without reflecting upon them, is referred to as
a. top down perception.
b. the indirect approach to perception.
c. sensational perception.
d. thebottom-up approach to perception.
D
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A. Subordinate hypothesis B. Interactionist theory C. Cognitive linguistic theory D. Linguistic relativity hypothesis E. biological theory
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