Perception Critical Thinking

consider things from their point of view, until you climb into their skin and walk in it.

In life, what we perceive tends to show misconception in how the thought plays out. A good example would be the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was unable to distinguish between his love for Daisy, a reality, versus the illusion that he could recapture her love by establishing and inventing a fraudulent past. He believed he could repeat the past, and acquire a flaunting wealth. In the novel, Jay Gatsby seems incompetent in establishing a difference between the realities of his life versus the illusion he made out.

Point of view: The author uses third person omniscient to show the thoughts of all characters. Like how “Piggy was flushing pinkly with pride” while on the other half of the mountain we also knew that “Simon watching the black and iridescent green” was happening at the same

In Legend, perspective builds suspense by abruptly cutting off a character and switching to the other. For example “The captain lifts his gun and points it at my mother. Then he shoots her in the head. “ page 157, This quote is in Day’s Perspective. He was accompanying a girl that worked as a soldier for the government ( he did not know about this ), she ends up finding out after a series of events that the boy is Day, the same boy that killed her brother, and she guides him right into a trap.

To see the world in which characters live in more clearly, it is crucial to first determine the point of view the author has given us. We often see our stories through four different viewpoints: omniscient (a type of third-person point of view, as told by a narrator with unlimited information), third-person limited (focusing on the viewpoint of one character, but has the capability to move inside and outside the sole character), first-person (a single character telling the story), or objective (simply what is seen and heard without commenting or interpreting anything said or done) (Arp 253-257). Upon discovering what viewpoint the author has decided to write in, readers have a clearer idea of not only understanding the story, but evaluating

The perspectives are biased to a point but by shifting the perspective from character to character in different times. It helps show how everyone is involved in the big conflict of the story, whether they know it or not, whether they wanted to be or not, and whether they care or not. The shifting of perspectives is disorienting but offers more than one way to look at a situation and share different things about the main character as the book progresses. The five perspectives that it switches from are (in order) Holly Sykes, Hugo Lamb/ Marcus Anyder, Ed Brubeck, Crispin Hershey, Marinus, and back to Holly Sykes. As for all the important ideas, they are received during conversations between the characters or the character’s [in first person] inner monologues. Most of the specifics about the main issues also come from the character’s thoughts and conversations with others in the

from three different perspectives, each one being told from a point of view by a different

Point of view is something that many people argue as relativistic and subjective. To explain; it is the external circumstances and events that give reality shape or form which is dependent upon a single person. How does this relate to seeing? As I have mentioned before in a earlier paper we are all victims of our own biases and filters created through our outside means. As it becomes internalized and reflected back out towards the world which creates the binocular view as we have discussed in class lectures. The real question at this point becomes how these extensions of reality become a collective view-point? As an example at what point do we decide what blue is, what it is associations?

An individual chooses the perspective they take. They perspective they chose can bring out the good and evil within. This is proven in Esther Claes’ “The Star” when the main character chooses to see the world from a different perspective, a selfish perspective. This is also once again proven in Lord of the Flies when Ralph refuses to see the islands survival through Jack’s perspective which brings out the evil and savagely within him.

Every person has a different point of view. Point of view is how someone observes someone or something. It is important to be able to see a situation from someone else’s point of view because everyone observes things differently.

Perception checking is a cooperative approach to communication that provides accuracy instead of assuming our first interpretation is correct. It minimizes defensiveness through face saving and requires both nonverbal and verbal elements to match. The benefits of perception checking is to help us have a better understanding of a message, so both persons can mutually relate and to reduce conflict so we don 't jump to conclusions. In the perception process reality is constructed in two ways. The first order realities is physically observable qualities of a thing or situation. For example, if your friend calls you a “bone head”. On the other hand, second order realities cannot reside in objects or events but rather in our minds. It involves our attaching meaning to first order things or situations. For instance, your friend is being critical is an example of second order realities. Perception checking has three parts: description, interpretation, and clarification. Description is describing a behavior that was noticed. Interpretation is providing interpretations of the behavior, Lastly, ask for clarification from the person about the behavior and interpretations. These three parts are important because they help an individual how to prevent assuming something that is probably not the intention of the other person which is why clarification is needed in a situation like this. It is better to gather more information about the situation then to think the

believe as truth and falsehood, and what to value in human relations. This process varies with different

Martin specifies two ways in which the narrator interacts with the mind of a character stating that a free indirect discourse “narrator can look into a character's mind or look through it” (143). The latter offers a more direct insight of the exact thoughts and mental processes of a character: how they are feel, how they will act. On the other hand when a narrator looks through a character’s mind they use see through their eyes. They display how a character views the world around them, how they see other characters. The narration uses the character as a lens to "focus" on the environment of the text.

Perception is defined as how you look at others and the world around you. Being able to select, organize and intercept information starts the perceptual process. Perception affects the way people communicate with others. An individual’s pattern of thinking can affect their perception of others. Most people communicate best with people of similar cultures.

There are four different sources of knowledge: perception, introspection, reason and memory. All our knowledge roots from our perception. Perception is the way humans sense the world outside the body. We perceive through our five senses: see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Humans gain knowledge through experiences and experience through perception. Usually we can trust our senses to perceive our surroundings effectively but there are times we misperceive. Illusions, hallucinations or impediments of the accurate flow of information to our senses are examples of misperceptions. For example if someone hits their head causing their vision to blur or impedes them from effectively processing what occurring around them, then they shouldn’t trust their senses. Another example would be an anxiety attack causing a signal of threat to the brain also preventing the person from correctly processing their surroundings. If nothing can prove we are misperceiving then we have good reason to be believe our senses.