When we start with pre-existing knowledge in order to organize features into a meaningful whole, we are exhibiting

a. perceptual dishabituation.
b. top-down processing.
c. bottom-up processing.
d. perceptual habituation.

ANSWER: b

Psychology

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A group of people who are on the margins of society may not want to be "found" by researchers. Such a group is known as

a. temporarily accessible. b. a hidden population. c. a self-selected sample. d. nondifferentiated.

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