Which is an example of top-down processing in the perception of speech? a. while watching 8-year-old tyler practice his ventriloquist act, his sister states drily, "i can see your lips moving, so you're not fooling anyone." b. when 5-year-old lucretia screeches "ice cream! " at the top of her lungs, her little brother covers his ears as the sound waves are processed by his auditory system. c. brie's father yells, "take out the . . "; before he can finish his sentence, brie jumps up from the couch to take out the garbage. d. terrence sits at the piano and composes a song for his band that is dissonant and uses unconventional chord progressions that will be difficult for most listeners to enjoy?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

How does sociology account for the cause of drug and alcohol addiction?

What was a main difference between franch conversation and liberals following the congress of vienna