Tovah is trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle she found in a bag at the cottage. Since she has no idea what the completed picture is supposed to be, she has to rely on the shapes and colours of the individual pieces to create and understand the whole picture. We can refer to Tovah's efforts to combine individual elements of the puzzle into a unified whole as
A) top-down processing.
B) bottom-up processing.
C) selective attention.
D) perceptual organization.

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Bottom-up processing involves building a perception from individual pieces of sensory information, which is what Tovah is doing by relying on the shapes and colors of the puzzle pieces to form the complete picture.

Tovah Is Trying to Put Together a Jigsaw Puzzle She