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Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
Topic 3.1
Can you refute conventional understanding related to bottom-up processing in perceptual organization?
Perception derives directly from the sensory input without any interpretation.
Perception begins with sensory receptors registering environmental information.
Sensory receptors convert stimulus energy into neural impulses to construct perception.
Small features are combined into larger ones using prior knowledge and experience.
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