What You See Is What You’ve Learned Addison Leong

A Little Background Sensation refers to the information you are constantly receiving from your environment Perception refers to the ways in which the brain manipulates this information: Select the sensation to focus on Organize the information into recognition Interpret the organized information

The Method Colin Turnbull, anthropologist who published the study, used naturalistic observation Over the course of a day, Turnbull brought a Pygmy named Kenge out of the forest (the Inturi Forest in Zaire) that he had never left Because of the forest, Kenge had never seen far distances before.

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Findings Note nature-nurture Suggests that environment, or nurture, contributes to perceptual development Later kitten experiment by Blakemore and Cooper (1970) There is no particular source of our perceptual abilities

Issues Conclusion is based on only one case study Cannot tell whether study results are universally applicable Turnbull had no hypotheses, clear scientific method, and was not even a psychologist

That’s All, Folks! Remember: Don’t keep children in the dark. It makes them think that cows a mile away are insects.