Question

Your best friend, marc, leaves you a voice mail, asking if he can change the restaurant where you had agreed to meet him for dinner. just as he mentions the new place where he wants to eat, his voice is drowned out by a loud conversation going on in the background. it sounded like marc said antonio's, a restaurant that you eat at frequently with marc. so, you go to antonio's and, sure enough, marc is there waiting for you. this situation illustrates

Answer 1

 This situation illustrates top-down processing. It is an approach to understanding the process of perception. The use of contextual information.
can lead to development of pattern recognition. The fact that you decided to go to the restaurant that you eat at frequently with Marc means that you used contextual information. Bottom-up processing on the other hand the perception is data driven.