• Orientation to Cognition: Perception and Conception
  • Cogito ergo sum
    
    
• 01:50 break
  
  
• nlt 02:00 Video: Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
  (60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
  [From NOVA ]
  
  
• Questions:
  
  
  • What is re - cognition?
    • And "pattern recognition?"
      
      
  • What is re - call?
    • And "pattern recall?"
      
      
  • How does "phantom pain" enter into this?
    
    
  How does "synaesthesia" fit in?
  • Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC
    
  
  
  How do cultural bound syndroms fit in?
  • "Latah"
  • and native healing?
    
    
  How do other cultural practices fit in, like Alejandro Mamani being possessed?
  • "Alejandro Mamani"
    
    
  How does déjà vu fit in?
  
  
  • How does déjà vu syndrom fit in?
  • people seem to remember images first, then feelings (MPR 26 February 2006)
    
    
  How does this relate to odor research?
  
  
  How do altered states of consciousness (ASC) fit in?
  
  
  How would you compare this research with Dr. Edwin May's "Remote Viewing" Houston research in the "ESP" segment from Science Frontiers: Put to the Test?
  
  
  • with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
    • Cf., Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia (60 min., 1993, VC 2464) [From NOVA ]
      
      
  • with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?
    
    
• Discussion: How do you think?
  
  
• What role does culture and learning play?
  
  
• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes":
  
  
  • perception
    • ([late ME < L perceptiôn- (s. of perceptiô) comprehension, lit., a taking in]
  • perceive
    • ([ME perceive(n) . . . per- PER- + -cipere, comb. form of capere to take]
  • percepts
    
    
• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"
  
  
  • conception
  • conceive
  • concepts
    
    

cognition perception sensory vision hearing touch taste smell extra - sensory (ESP) 6th ? conception Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Percepts Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9. The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC

The Formation of Concepts Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.   Species Specific Behavioral Environment Image #1 / Original of Image #1 Image #2 / Original of Image #2 Image #3 / Original of Image #3 Image #4 / Original of Image #4 B-EYE -- Andrew Giger Sex Specific Behavioral Environment Creamer Color Chart -- John Creamer, M.D.

 

• Perception and Cognition (cont.)
  • Questions from last week (last week)
    • diagrams
  • Questions from Stranger in the Mirror
    • diagrams
      
      

• Review Materials for Midsemester Exam
• Sample Exam Questions
  
  

• Reading Assignment

  • Ch. 5, "Alternative Views on Human Competence: General Intelligence and Genetic Epistemology," 126-170
  • review materials for midsemester exam

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