1. What You See Is What You’ve Learned
Addison Leong

2. A Little Background
Sensation refers to the information you are constantly receiving from your environment
Perception refers to the ways in which the brain manipulates this information:
Select the sensation to focus on
Organize the information into recognition
Interpret the organized information

3. The Method
Colin Turnbull, anthropologist who published the study, used naturalistic observation
Over the course of a day, Turnbull brought a Pygmy named Kenge out of the forest (the Inturi Forest in Zaire) that he had never left
Because of the forest, Kenge had never seen far distances before.

4. High quality images of trees

5. Findings Note nature-nurture
Suggests that environment, or nurture, contributes to perceptual development
Later kitten experiment by Blakemore and Cooper (1970)
There is no particular source of our perceptual abilities

6. Issues Conclusion is based on only one case study
Cannot tell whether study results are universally applicable
Turnbull had no hypotheses, clear scientific method, and was not even a psychologist

7. That’s All, Folks! Remember:
Don’t keep children in the dark. It makes them think that cows a mile away are insects.