35. What kind of processing is exemplified by the following scenario? Esther’s mother offers her a new dish she’s been working on―a raisin-jalapeno quiche. Esther’s body responds first: Esther eyes the content of the skillet, and smells the mix of raisins, jalapenos, and eggs. Her stomach churns and she looks away. Feeling disgust and disappointment, she says "I’m not hungry."

Contrary to the top-down processing, the botttom-up does not require a meaning application when receiving certain information: it is understood by the person just by receiving the pure sensation through the senses.

In certain currents of psychology there´s the beleive that all cognitive learning can be explain by two possible ways: the bottom-up and the top-down processing´s. The first one, we can say, is the most "primitive one" since all it need is a sensation to "understand what is going on", while, on the other hand, the top down processing is a little more complicate, since it need´s the pure sensation and an extra meaning application from the user.

The best way to understand this is by an example:

Bottom-up: Esther´s example is perfect; although she doesn´t know what´s in the new dish, by the sensation of it in her mouth and stomach, she knows she doesn´t like it. There´s no extra information needed to understand something.

Top-down: *see the image in the file*... By simply looking at it you are not sure what it is: Is it a 13 or a B? you can only know by looking it in a context or by applying the meaning by yourself. Extra information is needed to fully understand something.