Perception experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ
0l9s8_Hmk

Synesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk
RbebvoYqI

4 aspects of senses
3. Actively selective
We ignore many stimuli (unconsciously)
Cognitive bias

i.e. inattentional blindness

Tendency to handle perception in a swift (rapid)

way

4 aspects of senses
3. Actively selective
Key idea

Our senses do not simply record the

world

Experiment: The monkey

business illusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG
QmdoK_ZfY

1. Did you see the gorilla?

2. Did you notice the other changes in
the video?

Activity
Close your eyes, be quiet for one full minute. Pay
attention to:
1. Sounds
2. Smells around you
3. Feelings your body is experiencing (pressure of your
hands, by holding a book, etc.)
Which ones had you not been paying attention
before?

4 aspects of senses
4. Interpretive
Our brains are actively interpreting (giving
meaning) to sense information

4 aspects of senses
4. Interpretive
Pareidolia

Tendency of our brain to find patterns in random

sensory information

Picture analysis
1. Look at the following pictures.
2. Quickly (2 seconds), write down
what you see
3. Then, compare with the rest of the
class

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture 4

Picture 5

4 aspects of senses
4. Interpretive
When your brain receives stimuli, it doesnt receive it as
a blank slate

Sensations are integrated, compared and contrasted

with all info. You have received before
Gestalt theo.
We perceive info. As patterns (not
separated parts)

Activities p. 97-98

Read the following words out

loud once, and try to remember
as many as possible

Door, glass, pane, shade, ledge, sill,

house, open, curtain, frame, view,
breeze, sash, screen, shutter

Now write them down,

by memory

Did you write window by any

chance?

Memory and identity

Memory helps us to have a sense of
who we are
It locates us in time and space
It expresses experience: I was there,
I saw it, I felt it. I remember

Activity: For reflection,

p. 98

Memory and identity

Problem: Can it be fully reliable?

Memory and intuition

Memory: active process that involves
remembering + forgetting

Editing
i.e. Consistency bias

Memory and society

Shared memories in society
People create events of
remembrance for past events (i.e.:
dictatorships in LA, Holocaust, etc.)
To make society remember what
happened

Activity: Discusion
activity. Shared
remembrance, P. 106

In groups of three, answer and write

answers for the questions of the
activity

Imagination
In pairs, define imagination.
What does it involve?
Provide 10 examples of situations
where you have used or use
imagination
Explain them to the rest of the class

Imagination

Ability to picture to ourselves scenes or events (images

and stories)
that we are nither receiving through our sense perceptions
nor recalling through memory

Imagination
Although there are various concepts
of imagination (i.e. Hinduism and
gods), there are some important
aspects:
It transforms materials of experience
into new forms of meaning (i.e.
literature, arts, etc.)

 Imagination can be ambiguous, in

order to acquire knowledge of the
world (delusions, fantasies)

 HoweverCan imagination help us

to acquire knowledge about the
world?
Yes (i.e. historians)
View possibilities (scientific inventions)
Imagine alternatives to conflicts and
problems of society

Graded activity: imagination in

different fields of knowledge, p.
185
Read 4 first bios (Oded Rose, Carlos
A. Granadillo, Todd Waite, Heidi Li)
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