Give examples of bottom up processing from your everyday life
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Give examples of bottom-up and top-down processing from your everyday life
Is the following an example of Bottom-up vs. Top-down processing?
I have never fixed anything under the hood of my car. I decided to open the hood and look any way. All I see is a lot of nuts and bolts and hoses, etc. I can only learn what to do if someone teaches me. I'm faced with bottom-up processing. (I have no preconceived idea as to what I am going to do.)
Once an expert mechanic teaches me what everything is and how it functions, I have an idea as to what I'm facing and I use this knowledge for future problems. I have some background knowledge to draw from. This is called Top-down processing.