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Bottom-up or top-down?

Exercise and reference answers

Left
Bottom-up
Items
  1. Item
    Sound grabs you
    Answer
    Bottom-up
  2. Item
    Starts outside
    Answer
    Bottom-up
  3. Item
    Raw input first
    Answer
    Bottom-up
  4. Item
    Expectation leads
    Answer
    Top-down
  5. Item
    Knowledge guides
    Answer
    Top-down
  6. Item
    Starts in the mind
    Answer
    Top-down
Right
Top-down
Instructions
Swipe left for Bottom-up, right for Top-down.

Explanation

_Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 5 'Sensation and Perception', sections 5.1-5.6_
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