Risk perception

puts the reader/viewer as the person who knows nothing at all, to the person who is experiencing a discovery between one world to another, and lastly, to a situation where both people from different worlds cannot agree because of the two separate perceptions. This is displayed when it is suggested that prisoner returns to the cave to share his wisdom of the world later to be discouraged by his fellow prisoners. This occurring because the prisoners no longer agree with the freed one due to the…

Keeley Harris Kidd Theory of Knowledge February 16, 2015 “To what extent do our senses give us knowledge of the world as it really is? Sense perception is any capacity of sight, smell, hearing, taste, or touch, through which the body perceives external stimulus. Sense perception in and of itself is very complex due to the subjectivity of its nature. In other words, because no two people will see, taste, feel, smell, or hear the same object in exactly the same way there is an infinite number of…

The mind and body have been studied throughout time both in conjunction and individually. Ancient philosophies such as Plato’s (Silverman, 2013) viewed the body as temporary where as the mind was from another world therefore being able to transport. This means that the two were only united until the death or decay of the body and because the mind was from another world, it was the only thing capable of viewing universal truths. These philosophies are still being represented in 20th century…

Looking at somatic psychology from a structural level, somatic psychology is uniquely positioned to offer an understanding of the way in which an individual adjusts as a ‘normal citizen’ and how this contributes to the reproduction of the cultural and socioeconomic system within which he or she becomes adjusted (Johnson, 2009). When we conform to prohibitions and inhibitions dictated by our culture, this requires a loss of attention to the voice of our embodied experience. This is where…

It is human nature to be terrified of the unknown. Plato has conflicting views when regarding the existence of certainty and doubt in society. In Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, the cave may represent this superficial reality, everything that the prisoners have knowledge of has been conceived from mere illusions created by shadows. Because the prisoners had no sort of contact with the outside world they have become certain that the shadows were real. In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates has been…

capturing or recording through the drone camera. Also for filming a scene at a height, drones would be the answer. "Earlier this year it was reported more than a quarter of the 43 police forces in England and Wales were considering using drones in high risk operations and to trace burglary suspects." (Eysenck, 2014) Drones are creating a safer environment. For marine biologists, they can monitor life under oceans to uncover secrets about the organisms and how they behave instead of diving into…

20. What are the three components of attitudes? Explain and provide examples of each. The three components of an attitude are cognitive, affective, and Conative. Cognitive attitudes symbolize our thoughts, viewpoint and ideas concerning something. Classically these appear as generalities or stereotypes, such as “all fat people are lazy,” or “all white people are privileged.” Therefore, affective attitude are about feelings or emotions that can be implemented by fear or hate. Lastly, Conative is…

Discoveries allow some individuals to experience powerful transformations whilst others remain rigid and inflexible in their thinking. The process of discovery allows one to discover the unknown or reconsider the known whilst having a positive or negative effect on them. Transformations can bring change in one’s attitude and thinking. This is certainly applicable to Ivan O’ Mahoney’s documentary, Go Back to Where You Came From, Judith Cofer’s short story, An Hour with Abuelo and James Devaney’s…

Perception is not the same as sensation. Sensation is transformation of energy from external stimuli into neural signals within our bodies (Schacter, Gilbert, Nock, & Wegner, 2016). Because the energies of the external stimuli are intrinsic properties of the stimuli themselves, different people have more or less the same “sensory” response. However, perception is the interpretation of these sensory neural signals and imbues sensation with meaning. Oftentimes, perception can be prone to…

In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely discusses the “hidden forces that shape our decisions”. He looks deeply into how and why people make irrational decisions, but he also explains how we can improve our decision-making to act more rationally. This irrational behavior is consistent enough across populations to where it can be argued that people do not always act rationally. For some reason, we fall victim to anchoring, we cannot properly evaluate the concept of zero, and we always need to…