... when they successfully walked to the cube and touched it with their paw. During the actual experiment however, there was no reward given. It was a new learning situation for the animal. Even though there may have been some similarities between previous training and the actual experiment that some of the learning may have transferred, but not much. Even if a good portion ... transferred it was still a new and different situation in which the animal was not being rewarded for any behavior it exhibited, correct or incorrect. So therefor there was no stimulus - response taking place, thusly...

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... in several ways. Although they are both about perceiving things, they each conceptualize how your mind distinguishes what it recognizes. Essentially, the bottom-up process involves perceiving things based on stimulus or pattern recognition. The top-down approach focuses on having an expectation, which stimulates the mind based on past experiences (Baron, 118). Everything our eyes perceive follows one of these ... using our specific color and size constancies to determine what kind of bird it is and the cycle continues. The top-down process often creates problems if we assume one animal ...

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... a car engine. It runs the physical processes of the body, such as movement, or producing the feeling of thirst. The human brain acts in a similar way to that of its animal counterparts. As Descartes put it, without the mind the human body would still operate. Our brain doesn't initiate any of the activities that take occur. Instead it reacts to ... a stimulus and takes the best measures. When we are thirsty the brain gets the message and then reacts by telling the body that it needs water. This message arrives at the ... . The mind serves one function and one function only, and that is...

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