Suppose that you attend a lecture on the bottom-up processes involved in speech perception. The ...

Suppose that you attend a lecture on the bottom-up processes involved in speech perception. The lecturer is likely to emphasize
 
  a. how the listener's auditory system registers and transmits information about the speech sounds.
  b. the listener's familiarity with the language.
  c. the listener's knowledge about grammar.
  d. the listener's expectations about what the speaker will say.

Question 2

Suppose that you are accustomed to a certain bus stopping on a specific corner near your college campus. A bus stops, and you think that it's your customary bus.
 
  You fail to notice that the side of the bus has a totally different company name. The process that led to your misidentifying the bus is called
   a. serial processing.
   b. parallel processing.
   c. bottom-up processing.
   d. top-down processing.

Question 3

According to the discussion of the themes of the textbook,
 
  a. negative information is consistently easier to process than positive information, because it is more startling.
  b. our cognitive processes are interrelated with one another.
  c. our higher mental processes generally operate independently of the more basic mental processes.
  d. in general, our cognitive processes are not very accurate.

Question 4

The kind of processing that emphasizes how your sensory receptors register information is called
 
  a. serial processing.
  b. parallel processing.
  c. bottom-up processing.
  d. top-down processing.