Perception
Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at all but rather you were seeing hot spots in the middle of the road. This makes more sense because it hasn’t appeared to be raining and the weather is near one hundred degrees.
This is called perception, an experience resulting from stimulation of the …show more content…
Our expectations, experiences, and current knowledge all affect how memories are created. Many people do not realize how flawed our memory can be. The largest component of our memory is called autobiographical memory, it is a collection of memories that can describe our past. Autobiographical memory includes both episodic and semantic memory. For example, we can remember hiking in the Smokey mountains, seeing all the trees and remembering some of the conversations we had with friends (episodic memory) ; It might also include how you traveled to the Smokey mountains (by plane or car) or a list of your hiking gear and the time of day you hiked (semantic memory). Our memories are the most accurate and vivid when remembering major milestones or events that contained a lot of emotions. One hypothesis supporting this idea is the self-image hypothesis proposed by Clare Rathbone. This means our memory is enhanced from recalling events that helped form a person’s identity or self-image. (p.210) When you talk to an older retired person, they often talk about their past life such as, I was a psychologist, I spoke at my daughter’s wedding, I conducted research at Indiana University and so forth. Most of their memories are likely to be recalled best during their younger years, this is …show more content…
This approach proposes that concepts are represented in networks that consist of input, output and hidden units. Our brain learns which units are to be activated or deactivated in order to accumulate new knowledge. This approach is particularly useful to researchers because it can help explain how concepts are used and how damage to the brain affects peoples knowledge (Chpt.9 PP slide 13). Learning how we accumulate knowledge will help us learn more effective ways to increase our knowledge. Especially when studying which parts of the brain are involved with the accumulation of knowledge. I have wondered if someday we will be able to ‘use’ other people’s knowledge and transfer it in to ours such as being able to be a good pianist. Maybe we could transfer all the skills necessary without all the time practicing. Then we would be super
Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at all but rather you were seeing hot spots in the middle of the road. This makes more sense because it hasn’t appeared to be raining and the weather is near one hundred degrees.
This is called perception, an experience resulting from stimulation of the …show more content…
Our expectations, experiences, and current knowledge all affect how memories are created. Many people do not realize how flawed our memory can be. The largest component of our memory is called autobiographical memory, it is a collection of memories that can describe our past. Autobiographical memory includes both episodic and semantic memory. For example, we can remember hiking in the Smokey mountains, seeing all the trees and remembering some of the conversations we had with friends (episodic memory) ; It might also include how you traveled to the Smokey mountains (by plane or car) or a list of your hiking gear and the time of day you hiked (semantic memory). Our memories are the most accurate and vivid when remembering major milestones or events that contained a lot of emotions. One hypothesis supporting this idea is the self-image hypothesis proposed by Clare Rathbone. This means our memory is enhanced from recalling events that helped form a person’s identity or self-image. (p.210) When you talk to an older retired person, they often talk about their past life such as, I was a psychologist, I spoke at my daughter’s wedding, I conducted research at Indiana University and so forth. Most of their memories are likely to be recalled best during their younger years, this is …show more content…
This approach proposes that concepts are represented in networks that consist of input, output and hidden units. Our brain learns which units are to be activated or deactivated in order to accumulate new knowledge. This approach is particularly useful to researchers because it can help explain how concepts are used and how damage to the brain affects peoples knowledge (Chpt.9 PP slide 13). Learning how we accumulate knowledge will help us learn more effective ways to increase our knowledge. Especially when studying which parts of the brain are involved with the accumulation of knowledge. I have wondered if someday we will be able to ‘use’ other people’s knowledge and transfer it in to ours such as being able to be a good pianist. Maybe we could transfer all the skills necessary without all the time practicing. Then we would be super