Face perception

Style Blitz Assignment When racial tensions were high in America, with protesting, police brutality, and discrimination, one man decided to speak out against this racial tension. This man’s name was Martin Luther King Jr., who was an activist against racism. While in Jail in Birmingham, he wrote a letter detailing the racial tensions in the U.S and how devastating it is tot his people. In it, he describes laws that are just and laws that are unjust, conveying the message that the laws against…

Carl Hovland, a social psychologist at Yale University conducted breakthrough research regarding persuasion and social influence. During World War II, Hovland was approached by the United States Army to study the morale of the soldiers preparing to go off and fight. The nation’s president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was concerned that the soldiers were going to lose the fight with Japan after having just defeated the German Nazis. The War Department hired Frank Capra, from Fox and Disney…

A seemingly insignificant portion of the painting suddenly became the prominent aspect of both works. Not only did the reference provide a visual connection between the two, it also thoroughly transformed my perception on the two works as a whole. At first I was under the impression that Icarus was previously a member of this lower class yet died trying to escape it, that is why his peers refused to save him. I soon realized how inaccurate my interpretation of…

In 1640 Descartes published his famous Meditations on First Philosophy through which he shared his personal reflections on the separation of physical and intellectual realities. By demonstrating the distinctions between imagination and understanding, Descartes is able to declare the mind separate from the body. Through logical deduction, Descartes makes a case for the presence of a higher, heavenly power. With new information from modern science, society contradicts his initial comprehension of…

Many are fooled by optical or auditory illusions, such as those in the challenge, as their brain misinterprets what they sense. Our sensation is the stimulation of our sensory organs (Gilbert, Nock, Schacter, Wegner 131). We use this to make perceptions in which we interpret our sensations using receptors, in order to understand what is being sensed. These sensory receptors communicate with the Central Nervous System (CNS), however, through a process called transduction. Transduction occurs when…

Katagiri and a talking giant frog, who was asking for a help to battle for a worm, which might cause an earthquake in Tokyo. In addition, the rising action happened during the conversation between Katigiri and Frog about the battle that they are going to face. Moreover, Murakami, the author of the story, was able to hook the eye of the readers in the climax. It is the part when Katigiri realized that he was in the hospital. There, he started to be confused about his experiences, whether those…

How would you even begin a review of arguably the most important work, and thinker, responsible for the turn in Modern European Philosophy? Perhaps by acknowledging that Descartes is important, not for what he “thought” was “indubitable,” but for the dialogue he started about what he necessarily conceived, as such, being demonstrably wrong. I think that is a fair statement, and I have no intention of expounding upon that for this review. My intent is not to abuse or discredit him, but instead…

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher who was known as the “Father of Modern Philosophy”.…

Step 1 In the second meditations Descartes argument that the mind and the body are completely separate, but two distinct thing. Just as wax has clear properties of color, shape,size, smell and even taste, and it has a distinguishable sound when it is struck. It has everything that a body has to be known to be distinct as possible, but when near a hot fire the property of the wax changes completely to the point that it is unrecognizable from its original shape. The color changes, texture and…

John Locke proposed the fundamental principle of empiricism, all of our knowledge and ideas arise from experience. Locke was a British philosopher who pioneered ideas such as the empiricism which now define some leading ideals of psychology and philosophy. Against the claims of other well known philosophers, Locke insisted that neither the speculative principles of logic and metaphysics nor the practical principles of morality are inscribed on our minds from birth. Such propositions do not in…