1. WOK
Language
Perception
Emotion
Jim Carey

2. WOK: Perception Sensation and Interpretation

3. From Last week: Cultural Perception
What did you think of the video
Do you perceive the world culturally/geographically?
What if this happened in Lukuni?
Who does not perceive the world culturally/locally?
How can you change this?

4. WOK
Language
Perception
Emotion
Jim Carey

5. Crime Line up Eye witness testimony
Set the scene, bank robbery, you saw the robbers in the car before they put on their masks, this is them, what will you recall in 30 minutes when the police officer interview you

6. Perception Is an important source of knowledge 3 fundamental problems
We may misinterpret what we see
We may fail to notice something
We may misremember what we have seen
Think of an eye witness account
Links to last slide

7. How we distinguish between appearance and reality in everyday life
Confirmation by another sense
Coherence: it does not fit, i.e I saw a pig flying,
Independent Testimony: if 10 people saw something it must be true

8. Ultimate Reality We have 5 senses
Give an example of an animal that has completely different senses that carry out the same function?
3 min
What would reality be like if we used our senses differently?
5 minute exercise in class on the animals
Sharks in the water
Turtles
Dogs and smell
Elephants and hearing the vibrations in their feet
Bats and the sonar/radar

9. Other Senses Sharks in the water Turtles use magnetic fields
Birds use magnetic field to navigate
Dogs and smell
Elephants and hearing the vibrations in their feet
Ants use the position of the sun
Bats use sonar to see
Lemur tapping on trees to hear

10. What is really out there
Take these examples
You burn your hand – where is the pain
You drink some coke- where is the taste
You see blue in the sky- where is the colour
Is the sky blue, is the pain in the fire, is the sweetness in the coke, if we apply the same reasoning the sky is not blue, that is the way we see the world an animal with different sight senses will see the sky differently.

11. The tree in the forest Is the sky blue? If not what is sound?
10 miutes here, in groups does it make a sound, then feed back a statement with yes or not no sitting on the fence

12. Crime Scene
A police officer comes up to you and asks you what did you see?
What did you notice?
1 min to tell the person beside you

13. Key terms/points
Our five senses are an important source of knowledge about the world; but rather than passively reflect reality, they actively structure it.
Perception consist of two elements Sensation and interpretation.
Looking at visual illusions can help make us aware of the role that interpretation plays in perception
If we accept that pain and taste are subjective, we might conclude that colour and sound are also subjective
The fallibility of perception is relevant to issues in the real world such as eye-witness testimony in criminal crimes
Although perception cannot give us certainty, if the evidence of our senses is consistent with what reason and intuition tell us, it can still provide a good foundation for reliable knowledge