Stroop Effect discuss that brain processing of words is a more difficult task then just naming the color.
100
What is Self-Awareness
This is such an inherent part of our everyday lives; This knowledge requires no proof or any other form of empirical backing
100
Which theory states a statement or belief is true if it corresponds with a situation, an event or an object in reality.
Correspondence Theory
100
What are the factors that influence perception?
The object of perception, backgrounds and surroundings, and the perceiver
200
Explain the Vibration Theory of Olfaction.
Proposes that when an odorant interacts with the receptors in the nose, it triggers smell perception.
200
What is induction?
This claims knowledge about future events based on past experiences
200
What does the coherence theory state?
Coherence theory states that a statement or belief is true if it is coherent with other beliefs that one has.
200
What is grouping? What are the four types of grouping?
Grouping allows us to make sense of patterns and shapes. Similarity; Proximity; Continuity; and closure
200
What are the Ways of Knowing?
The following: Perception, Language, Reason, Emotion, Intuition, Memory, Imagination, and Faith
300
What are the three parts of the ear? Explain the McGurk Effect?
Outer-collects sound waves and directs them into the ear.
Middle-transmits sound from the outer to the inner ear
Inner-transmits the waves to the brain
McGurk Effect- we can't help but use vision to intepret what we hear
300
What is consensus?
This is basing knowledge on the fact that everyone, or at least most people agree that something is knowledge
300
What is Consensus theory?
Truth is a social or cultural consent or approval
300
What are three reasons sense perception should be used with caution when viewing illusions or the world?
Misinterpret what we see; fail to notice something; misremember what we see
300
What are the Areas of Knowledge?
The following: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences,History, Arts, Ethics, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Religious Knowledge Systems are called
400
What are the four types of taste on the tongue? Explain the Duplexity theory.
Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Salty; When two different tastes are on the tongue, one of the left/one of the right-they may add together in the middle of the tongue or stay seperate.
400
What is authority?
This is sound knowledge because we either consciously choose to believe a knowledge claim or we simply accept it as knowledge because we respect who/how it was presented to us
400
What is Pragmatic theory?
Pragmatic theory is a statement is true or reliable if it has success in practice or experiments
400
To distinguish appearance from reality, a person uses confirmation by another sense--what are they doing? Give an example.
Using second sense to confirm the evidence.
400
What is the main question to be answer through TOK?
How do we know what we know?
500
Explain the four touch receptors.
Mechanoreceptors-percieve sensations
Thermoreceptors-percieve temperature
Nocireceptor-percieve pain
Proprioceptors-percieve position of body parts in relation to other body parts and surrounding environment
500
What is Perception
This is sound reason because we can see, smell, hear, taste, and touch it; therefore, it is knowledge
500
What is difference between belief, truth, and knowledge?
Belief: Acceptance; opinion
Truth: Based on fact or reality
Knowledge: Information or skills acquired
500
What is the potential problem with viewing "figure and ground" types of illusions?
When tend to highlight certain aspects and treat other portions insignificant.
500
What is Justified Truth Belief? What's another name for JTB?
S knows P if and only if
P is TRUE
S BELIEVES P
S is JUSTIFIED
The Gettier Problem