Perceptual Illusions
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Seeing & Believing
Theories of Reality
TOK Review
100
Can be defined as the awareness of things through our five senses
What is Perception?
100
Word beginning with "E" that influences how we see things?
What are Expectations?
100
Condition were a person cannot recogonize familiar faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
100
Theory of reality that the way we perceive the world is the way the world is.
What is Common-sense realism?
100
The caption on Rene Magritte's painting entitled, "La Trahison des Images" or in english, "The Treachery of Images"
What is "Cest n'est pas une pipe" or "This is not a pipe"
200
The theory that all knowledge is eventually based on perceptual experience
What is Empiricism?
200
Many of the interpretations we routinely make about the world happen at this level
What is unconscious?
200
Condition where a person cannot connect what they "know" to what they "see". (Hint: result of injury to fusiform gyrus)
What is Visual Agnosia?
200
The theory of realism that says the world exists as an independent reality very different to the way you perceive it.
What is Scientific Realism?
200
Language, Perception, Reason, and ________can all be described as "ways of knowing"
What is Emotion?
300
According to this, perception is a passive and relatively straight forward process.
What is Common Sense Realism?
300
Illusions that exploit the brain's ability to see things as part of a group?
What are Context Illusions?
300
Symbolic story that describes a philosophical understanding of reality.
What is "Plato's Cave" or the "Allegory of the Cave"?
300
Theory of Reality where all knowledge must ultimately be based on experience.
What is Phenomenalism?
300
Word describing a lack of belief in absolute truth
What is Relativism?
400
Perception is thought to be needing these two distinct elements
What is sensation & interpretation?
400
Visual illusions that involves your brain's inability to focus on multiple visual cues at once.
What is figure and ground?
400
Nuerological condition that causes persons to experience a "blending" of their senses.
What is synesthesia?
400
Phenomenalism can be described this way
What is "To Be is to be peceived"
400
Justified True Belief
What is Knowledge?
500
The way we see something depends partly on this?
What is Context
500
Two things that shape and color our perceptions
What are feelings and emotion?
500
Condition where a person cannot connect what they see to what they know.
What is Visual Agnosia?
500
"Atoms in the void" can be said to desribe this theory of realism?
What is Scientific Realism?
500
The philosophy that there is only one mind and that reality as we experience it is a product of its consciousness.
What is solipism?
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