Face perception

Descartes states that “the mind is better known than the body”. He elaborates on this point that there is basic knowledge of the mind while we truly know nothing about the body as all of our senses may be incorrect. However, we do not know more about the mind, we just know of its existence as true, but we in fact may know more about the body and it’s surroundings. Meditation II begins at a complete base level supposing that everything Descartes senses, sees or remembers is only an illusion…

What- The what of Descartes’ first meditation is doubt. He believes he must begin to doubt all he held true in his life because they were simply falsehoods he accepted and then kept accepting until it was his entire belief system (41). Doubt of what he held as true by sensing and experiencing is the only way to find true knowledge. Reasons- His reasons for feeling as if one must clear their mind of already established biases and have doubt in anything they hold as knowledge is that senses can…

any certain knowledge. To do this, he engages in the method of Cartesian doubt, doubting everything he once believed at their foundations. To do this, Descartes reasons that almost everything he has come to believe has been a result of sensory perceptions but senses often are deceptive. If something deceives you at all, Descartes argues that the source cannot be held as a reliable foundation of knowledge. Descartes mentions that he would be insane to doubt certain things understood through the…

Plato’s perception of language in regards to its relation with truth lines up with Nietzsche’s views to a fair extent. The most apparent statement regarding Zietzsche’s views is in the final paragraph, where he states that if he were to “make up the definition of…

Humans’ amazing ability to recognize faces has one limitation; we cannot recognize upside-down faces. Studies have shown that while we can recognize inverted objects, we can’t tell “which of two inverted faces is the original when one has been slightly altered.” Dubbed the Thatcher Illusion, it is a result of our brain evolving a specialized facial recognition area separate from the area used for all other objects. The reason why is very simple; faces are always upright. There’s no need to take…

sides to a square, for it is not possible for them to be false. Descartes then talks about how God created him, but how does he know that God actually created anything around him and that he is not just being deceived, or everything else is just a perception of the mind? How do we know we are not being deceived each time we add 2+3? Or count the sides of a square? He then questions whether or not God deceives us, but then says that he is good and would not do that, except for sometimes.…

Introduction Attention is a complicated concept that refers to what information in our environment is processed. According to many psychologists, objects in the world are only processed if our attention is focused there, meaning many objects can be missed. One phenomenon that explains why we ‘miss’ certain objects is due to inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is where attention is focused on a certain task and unexpected objects that appear in our visual field may not be noticed…

It is assumed that as adults, we retain vast understanding of the physical world, yet our knowledge of infants’ perception of the world is ambiguous. In the first year of life new-borns’ observe numerous events, however, do they and if yes, how do they make sense of their world? Until 1980s, it was habitually accepted that infants have little awareness of outward things, partly due to Piaget’s 1952, 1954 denial of existence of inborn knowledge based on the analysis of the results in…

Social perspective is a key tool used to identify and recognize conformities as well as discrepancies within a culture. Society enforces actions within different cultures that influence their actions, opinions, and beliefs. First, in Chapter Eleven, Pierre Bourdieu examines different perspectives and aesthetic tastes in photography. Second, in Chapter Thirty-two, Mary Ann Doane elaborates on racial and sexual differences in the cinema. Finally, a journal by Felicia Chan, and Valentina Vitali,…

Stroop Effect Report My science fair project focuses on the Stroop Effect and how to eliminate it. Information on this subject is extremely limited but I will try my best to answer the research questions that I have put forth. HISTORY The Stroop effect was named after a man called John Ridley stroop. He discovered this phenomenon in the 1930’s. He had people try to name the color in which a word was printed, meaning that if you had the word “blue” printed in red ink, you would say “red”. Stroop…