Top-down processing is defined as the development of pattern recognition through the use of contextual information.
At the time, the chief steward hadnât yet learned of the Titanicâs fate, so he wasnât even on the lookout for icebergs. He simply spotted a streak of red paint along the icebergâs base, which most likely meant a ship had collided with it in the last 12 hours.
The officer quickly acknowledged with a Thank you, and the phone was hung up. Titanic's crow's-nest, where the berg was first sighted. Iceberg right ahead! was repeated again in the bridge. The first officer quickly looked out of the ship's bridge windows. Seeing the berg looming off the bow, he turned and shouted Hard astarboard to quartermaster Hitchens tending the ships wheel in the wheelhouse.