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  2. David Canter - Wikipedia

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    Canter was a pivotal figure in the creation [citation needed] of the British, 'bottom-up', approach to criminal profiling. [2] This approach uses the evidence left at the crime scene and witness testimony to create a profile of the offender to help with criminal investigations.

  3. Bottom-up and top-down design - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of bottom up and top down approach to heap sort. Bottom-up and top-down are both strategies of information processing and ordering knowledge, used in a variety of fields including software, humanistic and scientific theories (see systemics), and management and organization. In practice they can be seen as a style of thinking ...

  4. Bottom-up - Wikipedia

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    Bottom-up integration testing, in software testing; Top-down and bottom-up design, strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering; Bottom-up proteomics, a laboratory technique involving proteins; Bottom Up Records, a record label founded by Shyheim; Bottom-up approach of the Holocaust, a viewpoint on the causes of the Holocaust

  5. Context effect - Wikipedia

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    A context effect is an aspect of cognitive psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. [1] The impact of context effects is considered to be part of top-down design. The concept is supported by the theoretical approach to perception known as constructive perception. Context effects can ...

  6. Social comparison theory - Wikipedia

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    A self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model of social behavior focuses on the consequences of another person's outstanding performance on one's own self-evaluation. It sketches out some conditions under which the other's good performance bolsters self-evaluation, i.e., "basking in reflected glory", and conditions under which it threatens self ...

  7. List of psychological research methods - Wikipedia

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    Program evaluation; Quasi-experiment; Self-report inventory; Survey, often with a random sample (see survey sampling) Twin study; Research designs vary according to the period(s) of time over which data are collected: Retrospective cohort study: Participants are chosen, then data are collected about their past experiences.

  8. Surrogate model - Wikipedia

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    Surrogate models are constructed using a data-driven, bottom-up approach. The exact, inner working of the simulation code is not assumed to be known (or even understood), relying solely on the input-output behavior. A model is constructed based on modeling the response of the simulator to a limited number of intelligently chosen data points.

  9. Figure–ground (perception) - Wikipedia

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    A 2011 study suggests that the auditory system possesses mechanisms that are sensitive to such cross-frequency and cross-time correlations. Results of this study demonstrated significant activations in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and the superior temporal sulcus related to bottom-up, stimulus-driven figure–ground decomposition. [26]