Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry professor several times a week,she didn't recognize the professor when she saw her in the grocery store.This best illustrates the importance of

A) bottom-up processing.
B) context effects.
C) priming.
D) sensory adaptation.

Sensory Adaptation

The mechanism where sensory detectors decrease in sensitivity to unchanging stimuli as time progresses.

Priming

A psychological phenomenon in which exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.

Bottom-up Processing

An approach to processing information that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.