PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fusiform Face Area, Chronometry, Cognitive Deficit

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Bottom-up processing is the belief that our pattern recognition system is only dependent on the amount of information coming in visually to recognize letters, words or patterns. Aka, only raw sensory information is needed to match what we see to a representation stored in memory. If this theory were true, then individual letters should be recognized better and faster than words with multiple letters. Therefore, there must be other processes at work as well top-down processing is where information coming into the system is influenced by what we already know, or our expectations. Context effects were seen in an experiment by warren and warren the phonemic restoration effect context of a sentence can influence what people believe they heard. Our tendency to remember a piece of information is partly dependent on where in a listen it appears (its serial position)