Question

Describe the concepts of sensory adaptation, bottom-up processing, and top-down processing, and provide an example of how perception is shaped by each of these processes.?

Answer 1

Sensory adaption, is a concept used in psychology which explain that after a point, a given stimulus, with its constancy effect and prevelancy, becomes neutral. The principle of pleasure could be explained by thus theory, that is, if some thing is constantly there on the senses, the senses stop responding to it after a point. For instance, a person who is pressing their thumb, will stop noticing the pressure in their thumb after a point.

Bottom down processing is the most rudimentary form of perception, it is the kind wherein an individual perceives from the senses and interprets it as it is. Such as seeing a cockroach in the bathroom.

Top down processing uses more than the senses, it uses the schemas and the cognition and thoughts to helps percieve a given sensory input. Such as hearing music