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AP Psychology
Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
Topic 3.7
Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
3.7 Body Senses
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Which observation supports the idea that perception is not solely a bottom-up process?
Sensory receptors relay information about external stimuli to the brain.
Expectations and context often influence how we interpret sensory information.
Certain cells in the visual cortex respond specifically to certain types of visual input.
We sense basic features of stimuli such as light, color, lines and edges in a sequence-dependent manner.
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