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  2. Constructive perception - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to this top-down approach, there is the bottom-up approach of direct perception. Perception is more of a hypothesis, and the evidence to support this is that "Perception allows behaviour to be generally appropriate to non-sensed object characteristics," meaning that we react to obvious things that, for example, are like doors even ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology - Wikipedia

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    This approach is sometimes characterized as more "bottom up" (i.e., starting with raw observations and inferring the presence of diagnostic concepts), compared with the more "top down" approach (i.e., starting with a general clinical concept and deducing the symptoms that might define it) of official classification systems.

  6. 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

  7. Psychological evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Psychological evaluation is a method to assess an individual's behavior, personality, cognitive abilities, and several other domains. [a] [3] A common reason for a psychological evaluation is to identify psychological factors that may be inhibiting a person's ability to think, behave, or regulate emotion functionally or constructively.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Maturity model - Wikipedia

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    Two approaches to implementing maturity models exist. With a top-down approach, such as proposed by Becker et al., [ 4 ] a fixed number of maturity stages or levels is specified first and further corroborated with characteristics (typically in form of specific assessment items) that support the initial assumptions about how maturity evolves.