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Gestalt psychologists argued that the perception of stimuli in our environment goes well beyond the individual elements that we sense. Instead, it represents an active, constructive process carried out within the brain. This process puts together bits and pieces of sensations to make something more meaningful than the separate elements. Describe two or three observations you have made recently that would illustrate this theory.
2

Explain how you may use both top-down and bottom-up processing in perceiving a partially completed crossword puzzle. How do you decide what to put in some of the empty squares?
3

Offer at least one explanation of the moon illusion (i.e., when the moon first appears at night, close to the horizon, it seems to be huge--much larger than when it is high in the sky later in the evening.)





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