Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Monday, January 4, 2016 Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Do Now: How would you define the term “Perception?” Homework: Benchmark #2 Monday, January 11

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Look closely at the illustration of a seal act for a circus in the figure below. What do you see?

Would you have seen it differently without the cue? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Would you have seen it differently without the cue? You may have identified a seal balancing a ball on its nose with its trainer on the right holding a fish in one hand and a stick in the other. However, if you had been told that this picture was of a costume party, how would you then have described it? Would your perception of the same illustration have been different?

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Perceptual Set Perceptual set is the predisposition, or ‘readiness’, to perceive something in accordance with what we expect it to be. Also known as expectancy

What can effect perceptual set? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What can effect perceptual set? Motivation Emotional State Past Experience Culture And more…

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world?

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world?

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What do you see?

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Motivation Motivation refers to processes within us which activate behavior that is directed towards achieving a particular goal influenced by psychological factors (such as interests, ambitions and desires) or physiological factors (such as bodily responses associated with hunger or thirst).

Visual perception can be influenced by our motives Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Visual perception can be influenced by our motives For example, we see what we want to see, rather than what is actually there. When supporters of opposing teams are sitting side by side at a football match, the difference in their perceptions of the same event may be considerable.

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Emotional State Our emotional state — how we are feeling —Different emotions can ‘set’ us to perceive information in a particular way. For example, a child who is afraid of being in their darkened bedroom may interpret the shadow of their clothing hanging on the back of the bedroom door as a ghost, or the teddy bear sitting on the end of the bed as a monster. As a class think of some examples

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Past Experience Past experience refers to our personal experiences throughout our lives. Such experiences also predispose, or ‘set’ us to perceive information in a particular way. AS A CLASS THINK OF SOME EXAMPLES

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Culture

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world?

Activity: What do you see? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Activity: What do you see? When you look at the image on the board, write down what you think it is

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What do you see?

Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? Discussion Why did some people see a young women while others saw an old woman? What did you feel towards those who saw the drawing the same way as you? Towards those who saw it differently? What did you feel when you “discovered” the other aspect of the picture? Was there ever a time when you saw something one way and someone else saw it differently?

What do these letters spell? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What do these letters spell? FOLK

What do these letters spell? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What do these letters spell? CROAK

What do these letters spell? Aim: How do outside factors influence the way we perceive the world? What do these letters spell? SOAK

Exit Ticket Answer the aim in a paragraph of at least 3-5 complete sentences How do outside factors influence the way that we perceive the world?

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