PSY 360 Week 2 DQ 3 Recent Essay

Watch the “Sensation and Perception- Visual Perception” video located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Discuss the video.

Visual Ambiguities
Reflect on visual ambiguities and discuss the following:
Visual perception is complicated because people’s cognitive systems are not adept at analyzing visual stimuli. To resolve visual ambiguities, people make unconscious assumptions that resolve the ambiguities. What are some examples of visual ambiguities that you have encountered today? What type of cognitive assumptions did you make to solve them?

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Individual Assignment: Attention Worksheet

Resources: Attention Worksheet located on the student Web site.
Complete the University of Phoenix Material Attention Worksheet located on the Week Three student Web site

Learning Team Assignment: Visual Ambiguity Presentation

Locate an example of a visual ambiguity or distortion.

Prepare an 8- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with presenter notes in which you present your example to the rest of the class.

Discuss the following:

o Discuss how the visual system resolves ambiguities by making different types of assumptions and describe these assumptions.

o Analyze the role of perception in cognitive psychology.

o Discuss the importance of visual perception in cognitive processes.How does culture affect language acquisition?Watch the “TED Talks: Deb Roy- The Birth of a Word” video located in this week’s Electronic Reserve readings.
Discuss the video.

Every year, new words get added to the dictionary. This might be a fun exercise from you. Imagine you have to educate someone from the 1950’s on some of the new words that have come about since that time. How would you go about teaching them the words? How might you explain how they came into existence? Now imagine you’re the person from the 1950’s – what would you think? How would you react?
Interested to hear your thoughts!

Watch the “Inside Dyslexia” video located in this week’s Electronic Reserve readings.

Language Structure
Reflect on the structure of language and discuss the following:

As discussed in this week’s reading assignment, language structure is important in cognition, but is it really? For example, if a child said to you, “You, me, cookie, go now, hurry,” you would know what the child meant, even though what is said is not grammatically correct. How is that possible?