Tess, Ivy, Chun Il: 1. What is the question asking?
a. How our cultural filters/sense perception affects how we view the world.
b. Our view sometimes biased and gets distorted because of these filters.
c. We judge situations based on our emotion and this may not be a true representation of what is happening. 2. Knowledge issues?
a. Perception
i. How you live your life affects what we actually see.
ii. How we see things help find who we are
iii. How can we know how things really are with the filters?
b. Emotion
i. Emotions play into our judgment
ii. Our perception changes over time depending on our emotion, which raises the question, to what extent can we know and to what extent can we determine what is real?
c. Reason
i. Confirmation bias: we see things as we are and view the selectively, which hinders us from knowing.
d. Is there one reality since perception, emotion, and reason can alter every individuals’ view of the world. 3. Personal Connections
a. Perception:
i. Art (?): we view art differently depending on our perspectives.
ii. Cultural filters: The Caucasians noticed the foreground and the Japanese looked at the painting from a holistic point of view.
b. Emotion
i. Professor Gates could’ve allowed his emotions to get in the way of his judgment and he might have overreacted.
ii. Optimistic people tend to view the world from a positive perspective.
Teresa, Isa, and Sean:
1. What is question asking? / What is it not asking?
a. Discuss how filters influence interpretation of reality / surroundings.
b. Identify two ways of knowing connected to this; explain how it’s connected to them.
c. Not asking: Not so much about areas of knowledge (not necessarily)
2. Knowledge issues?
a. Perception: it’s not the way of knowing, just our interpretation that’s at fault… different interpretations of the same data
b. Emotion: hinders judgment… link to reason (emotion hindering clear reasoning?)… link to perception… different attachments to different things
c. One definite reality? Or many different ones based on people’s interpretations?
3. Types of personal connections?
a. Teresa: tennis – during matches (adrenaline)
b. Isa: belief in the supernatural – cultural roots / emotion
c. Art
d. Relationship with parents – generation gap
4. Terms to include?
a. Perception
b. Emotion
c. Reality
d. Truth
e. Filters
Tess, Ivy, Chun Il:
1. What is the question asking?
a. How our cultural filters/sense perception affects how we view the world.
b. Our view sometimes biased and gets distorted because of these filters.
c. We judge situations based on our emotion and this may not be a true representation of what is happening.
2. Knowledge issues?
a. Perception
i. How you live your life affects what we actually see.
ii. How we see things help find who we are
iii. How can we know how things really are with the filters?
b. Emotion
i. Emotions play into our judgment
ii. Our perception changes over time depending on our emotion, which raises the question, to what extent can we know and to what extent can we determine what is real?
c. Reason
i. Confirmation bias: we see things as we are and view the selectively, which hinders us from knowing.
d. Is there one reality since perception, emotion, and reason can alter every individuals’ view of the world.
3. Personal Connections
a. Perception:
i. Art (?): we view art differently depending on our perspectives.
ii. Cultural filters: The Caucasians noticed the foreground and the Japanese looked at the painting from a holistic point of view.
b. Emotion
i. Professor Gates could’ve allowed his emotions to get in the way of his judgment and he might have overreacted.
ii. Optimistic people tend to view the world from a positive perspective.
Teresa, Isa, and Sean:
1. What is question asking? / What is it not asking?
a. Discuss how filters influence interpretation of reality / surroundings.
b. Identify two ways of knowing connected to this; explain how it’s connected to them.
c. Not asking: Not so much about areas of knowledge (not necessarily)
2. Knowledge issues?
a. Perception: it’s not the way of knowing, just our interpretation that’s at fault… different interpretations of the same data
b. Emotion: hinders judgment… link to reason (emotion hindering clear reasoning?)… link to perception… different attachments to different things
c. One definite reality? Or many different ones based on people’s interpretations?
3. Types of personal connections?
a. Teresa: tennis – during matches (adrenaline)
b. Isa: belief in the supernatural – cultural roots / emotion
c. Art
d. Relationship with parents – generation gap
4. Terms to include?
a. Perception
b. Emotion
c. Reality
d. Truth
e. Filters