Sense Perception
By: Muna Nehme
&
Enrique Buck
Traditional Senses
• 5 senses:
- Touch
- Sight
- Smell
- Taste
- Hearing
Non-Traditional Senses
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Temperature
Pain
Balance
Acceleration
Appearance vs Reality
• What appears to be real, is not always that way.
• The same situation may seem real to one
person, yet is seen under another light by
someone else.
• We are easily tricked by perception.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tr5kQ5ZC90
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• “There is, perhaps, one universal truth
about all forms of human cognition: the
ability to deal with knowledge is hugely
exceeded by the potential knowledge
contained in man's environment. To cope
with this diversity, man's perception, his
memory, and his thought processes…We
tend to perceive things schematically, for
example, rather than in detail, or we
represent a class of diverse things by some
sort of averaged typical instance.”
- Jerome S. Bruner
Descartes and Perception
• Senses cannot be trusted with absolute
certainty.
• People are thinking beings, and their
minds are not extended.
• The body is extended, meaning that it
takes up space; thus seperating min form
body.
Importance in Education
• We learn through sight, touch, smell, taste
and hearing.
Human and Natural Sciences
• “All senses are needed to understand
these two areas of knowledge because to
understand human behavior and its role in
society you must take into acount physical
and moral factors, which is were our
senses aid in our understanding of the
behavior of humans.”
• The term Human Science is applied to the
way we investigate human activities
throughout a person’s life. Through
sensory experience people are able to
understand and prove ideas on the human
sciences.
Mathematics and Perception
• Mathematics has a major role in the
developing of new disciplines.
• Mathematics involves mostly the senses of
touch and sight.
The Arts and Perception
• The arts are taking in and/or performed
throughout the use of our senses.
• If not what would be...
– acting without seeing
– music without hearing
– dancing without feeling
Problems with Perception
• It is misleading, in the majority because of
ilusions and hallucinations.
• It is subjective. Changing from person to
person.
• Interpretation is provide by the mind.
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p26nNgWAleI
Emotions and Perception
• Our emotions can change the way we
percieve things.
• Our moods can determine if we will see an
event or happenning as good or bad.
• “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Prous
Images from:
• http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/staff/J.Zanker/PS1061/ps1061e
ssay/wq_senses.jpg
• http://www.elwebmaster.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/08/simbolostrafico.jpg