PERCEPTION of the brain

The educated PERCEPTION : 

The educated PERCEPTION By: Ethan witty

What is perception? : 

What is perception? “ a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.” Dictionary.com. (2010). Dictionary.com. Retrieved November 10, 2010, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perception This basically means how we see the world and how we interact with it.

How perception effects us? : 

How perception effects us? “In essence, your brain expects the world to behave in certain ways and it subtly shapes according to these biases.” Macdonald, M. (2008). Your Brain: the Missing Manual. Sebatopol: O'Reilly Media Inc. Therefore every stimuli that stimulates our 5 senses are processed by our brain and creates assumptions based on the way we think. What might one person see, another person could see a completely different way.

Multitasking : 

Multitasking Our brains are programed to pay attention to movement and ect. It id this way because our brain perceive this movement as a threat. The movements distract us from our current task at the time. Our brain can only focus on one task at a time. So watching television or listening to music will distract you.

Are you ignoring me? : 

Are you ignoring me? In order to ignore constant false alarms of danger, your brain can ignore constant stimuli. For example: The air blowing past your ears. The clothes on your body. Constant sound of cars driving past your office. Macdonald, M. (2008). Your Brain: the Missing Manual. Sebatopol: O'Reilly Media Inc.

Perceptual predictions : 

Perceptual predictions “Perceptual predictions are valuable because they allow an organism to anticipate the future and to plan appropriate actions rather than merely react to incoming stimuli” Zacks, J. M. (2007). Event Perception: A Mind/Brain Perspective. Pyscho Bull, 273-293. By using these predictions, we won’t walk off a cliff because we know we could die from that action using previous knowledge.

Culture perspective : 

Culture perspective “People from different cultures have differing cognitive processing styles .” “North Americans, tend to be more analytic than East Asians.” “North Americans attend to focal objects more than do East Asians, analyzing their attributes and assigning them to categories.” Nisbett, R. E. (2005). Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception. The National Academy of Sciences, 12629–12633.

The child sees it differently : 

The child sees it differently “Children younger than 12 do not combine different sensory information to make sense of the world as adults do.” University College London (2010, September 14). Children and adults see the world differently, research finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 15, 2010, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2010/09/100913153630.htm Adults take into consideration every aspect of an object and children do not. They don’t have as many biased assumptions yet.

Are you Seeing things? : 

Are you Seeing things? The brain is constantly trying to identify patterns, so it can quickly analyze an object to see and understand an it as fast as it can. This creates assumptions that is a lot time wrong and not even there.

Resources : 

Resources Dictionary.com. (2010). Dictionary.com. Retrieved November 10, 2010, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perception Macdonald, M. (2008). Your Brain: the Missing Manual. Sebatopol: O'Reilly Media Inc. Nisbett, R. E. (2005). Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception. The National Academy of Sciences, 12629–12633. Zacks, J. M. (2007). Event Perception: A Mind/Brain Perspective. Pyscho Bull, 273-293. University College London (2010, September 14). Children and adults see the world differently, research finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 15, 2010, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2010/09/100913153630.htm