The ringing of the telephone is the distal stimulus.
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The shoe itself is the distal stimulus.
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According to Ramskov, one proponent of bottom-up approach, Gibson, claims that it is a process that includes visual perception that needs information available from proximal stimulus produced by the distal stimulus.
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In this context, for instance, when an ear's receptive field ( the proximal stimulus, more commonly known by Buddhists as a sense base, or sense organ ) and sound ( the distal stimulus, or sense object ) are present, the associated ( ear-related consciousness ) arises.