Fred found it impossible to read the scrawled prescription on his physician's prescription pad. Fred was relying on which type of processing?
A) top-down processing
B) feature processing
C) signal processing
D) bottom-up processing

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Bottom-up processing is the process of perceiving objects by starting with the basic features of the object and then combining them into a whole. In this case, Fred was relying on bottom-up processing to read the prescription because he was starting with the basic features of the letters (the lines and curves) and then combining them into words.

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