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Perceptionlecture
The document discusses perception, cognition, and worldviews. It explains that when students learn, their brain changes by forming new neural connections and strengthening or eliminating existing connections. Learning occurs through enriched environments that provide novelty, engage multiple senses, and elicit high motivation and focused attention and significant emotional reactions. However, too much emotion can interfere with learning. It also notes that perception is variable, unreliable, and driven by both our senses and our mindsets. Worldviews provide basic assumptions about reality, values, cultural examples, and rules to guide behavior. Worldviews evolve gradually over time in response to changes in our environment and experiences.
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Perceptionlecture
- 1. Perception, Cognition and Worldviews ...Or, everything you ever needed to know about Reality, your Brain and Learning but were afraid to ask.
- 2. Frontal Lobe: Parietal Lobe: Sensory Perception Spatial perception Abstract Reasoning Amygdala Conceptual Memory Long-range planning Personality Emotional reactions Social Behavior Fight-Flight Response
- 3. … And severold ones
- 4. ...when students interactwith the world and synthesize information obtained by their senses, neurons receive input from each other and are altered, creating new electrical patterns between networks of neurons. During learning, changes may neurons occur in the way neurons communicate with each other; in the efficiency of connections between neurons; in the number of neurons involved in the network; in the amount of energy required for communication to be initiated; and in how often communication occurs. New neural connections are formed constantly, while others are either strengthened or eliminated. A large body of research confirms that humans exposed to more enriched environments have larger, larger heavier brains with increased branching and connecting of neurons.
- 5. Enriched Environments: Novelty: Multiple Modalities: ies High Motivation & Focused Attention Significant Emotional Reaction But not too much emotion !!!
- 6. Perception is Variable:Position, Perspective, Variable Attention, Filters and Framing all affect your perception. Perception is Unreliable: Scientists Unreliable rely upon objective standards and mathematics to test a hypothesis. Perception is driven by the Mind as much as by the Senses: You see in part Senses what you expect. You don’t hear much of what you dislike. FRAMING by others and your own WORLDVIEW create bias - a distortion of your perceptions. perceptions
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- 10. What is a“Worldview” anyway? A worldview supplies a particular community with the following: •Basic assumptions about what is real and what is unreal, true and false; •Values - moral and ethical standards •Historical and cultural examples including myths, legends, rituals, traditions • Rule sets to guide behavior and punish wrongdoers
- 11. Worldviews are shapedby the culture around you
- 13. Every society changesvalues and customs slowly over a long period of time. Individuals and organizations react to their environment when they OBSERVE, ORIENT, DECIDE and ACT. This creates a steady flow of small changes in a worldview. Cataclysmic events or earth shaking discoveries can rapidly and dramatically change people’s worldviews -ex. Pearl Harbor
- 14. 1492 1776 2006 Human culture evolves in response to changes in the environment -be it social, economic, technological or physical changes.
- 16. Paradigm: A dominant pattern of thought or model in a particular field (ex. Physics, Government, Art, Law etc.) Worldviews are generally larger concepts that contain multiple paradigms but some people use the two terms interchangeably
- 17. VS. Ideas are Reality Physical World is Reality Objects are Illusions Objects are Real One World Two Worlds Freedom Order Choice Fate Absolute values Relative values Spiritual-Utopian Scientific-Realist Moralist Logical