By: Muna Nehme & Enrique Buck Sense Perception By: Muna Nehme & Enrique Buck

Traditional Senses 5 senses: - Touch - Sight - Smell - Taste - Hearing

Non-Traditional Senses 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 (showing of video (4))

“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. (showing of video (1:30)) 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

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