The Perception Between Shared Knowledge And Personal Knowledge

While my initial expectations for this assignment were vague, I did not imagine that I will have so much interesting. In addition, the course brought interesting issues about knowledge and different ways of knowing. This gives me a wonderful chance to connect with our patterns of knowing to daily living. Consequently, I noted myself able to build connections to my life’s experiences and knowledge.

Specific Purpose: To inform my public speaking class on how to play the game of soccer

In 1951, Solomon Asch carried out several experiments on conformity. The aim of these studies was to investigate conformity in a group environment situation. The purpose of these experiments was to see if an individual would be swayed by public pressure to go along with the incorrect answer. Asch believed that conformity reflects on relatively rational process in which people are pressured to change their behaviour. Asch designed experiments to measure the pressure of a group situation upon an individual judgment. Asch wanted to prove that conformity can really play a big role in disbelieving our own senses.

Graff suggests that knowledge goes beyond the academic learning and it continues in everyday life. As a child he had to find a happy median between brain and interest, as Graft described he felt “the need to prove that I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well”. Graft believed that only academic knowledge can be a hinderance to the social life and continue to argue that sports is the best topic to be interested in. Graft found himself in arguments about player statistic and record, which helped him develop analysis skills, summaries about the games, generalization and other intellectual operations. After understanding what those conversation helped him with , Graft soon establish the idea that the sports world was more compelling than school because it was more “intellectual than school” not less. The idea of sports being more intellectual began to surface through his mind. Graff explained to the readers to take interesting

The Solomon Asch’s Conformity Study is an experiment where a standard line is shown to an audience along with three other lines: one will be longer, one will be shorter, one will be the exact same line as the standard. The goal is to identify which is the same line- A, B, or C- and the answer was always obvious. The task is simple, but a person will be the only real participant in the room while the seven others are confederates who were pretending to be participants and who were trying to use social pressure to get the participant to conform with the majority group. For example, if the real answer was A, the confederates would try to throw off the real participant by saying the answer is B. With the majority saying B is the correct answer, the real participant would agree with them, even knowing the answer is wrong because everyone else didn’t say A. The experiment was tested on 50 male students from Swarthmore College, and on average, about 32% of the participants conformed to the incorrect answer with the majority.

Conformity is a situation of changing one’s behavior in order to match the actions of the society around the person. The social influence cause people to agree or even behave like the majority of the people in the specific group so that the group can perceive them as normal. Solomon Asch (1956) was interested to know the act of people in conformity pressure. Because of that, he created an experiment to investigate the process by asking college students in a group of eight to match the lengths of different lines. The experiment shows that 95% of the students correctly match 12 lines without pressure of group. Ash repeats the experiment by changing the situation. The students now need to hear answers of five other people who are actually confederates

Soccer is a game with many key components inside it. The most commonly known rule is you can not touch the ball with your hands except if you are the goalie, which is the player who tries to block the goals from going into your teams goal. There are other components such as dribbling, passing, and shooting all this comes down to knowing how to kick the ball. Since only one player can use their hands that means the remaining ten teammates can only use their feet, head, and chest to move the ball. I am going to be focusing on the

After World War II, Kurt Lewin became interested in the topic of conformity. Due to his research, many other social psychologists such as: Milgram, Asch, Darley, and Latané began to conduct research on conformity. Based on a study conducted by Stanley Milgram, an observational study was conducted at Elizabethtown College in order to replicate the findings of Milgram’s experiment.

There is a fundamental human need to belong to social groups especially if people were to live and work together, it is likely that they need to agree on common beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviours in order to get along and fit-in. Thus, we learnt to conform to rules of other people, the more people see others behaving in a particular way or making particular decisions, the more likely people will feel obliged to follow the suit. This is called conformity and can be defined in different ways, Aronson, Wilson & Akert (2014) stated it is the changing of one’s behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people. According to Deutsch and Gerard (1955), social influence should be distinguished into two types, the informational social influence and normative social influence. The occurrence of social influence has implied to many real life events, which has drawn many researchers to attention. This has lead many researchers to design distinct experiments to try and understand the cause of the conformity, whether conformity is situation dependent, and whether we are able to resist social influences.

Conformity is going along with one’s belief or actions, in a group a person can be influenced to become harmful and destructive. There are certain times where peaceful protesters can turn completely angry and enraged, due to partial members misunderstanding’s towards their change in views. Stanley Milgram and Solomon Asch both did major experiments exploring the true definition of individuals who will conform to the pressure of a group or a perceived authority. Stanley Milgram and Solomon Asch experiment also showed us how perfectly normal human being can be pressed into very unusual behavior by authority figures or the consensus of opinion around them.

For instance, they could practice the passing part of the cross and finish play, the crossing part, or the positioning needed for it. These soccer players spend many hours almost every day practicing drills like these because of how much one person can improve just practicing a simple drill. The only way to become a professional at anything is by practicing and if you ever want to master something in your life practice is the key that will help you

Conformity, the most popular form of social influence, has been described as the ability of oneself to change their core behavior so as to have the same response as others and to fit in the norms set up by society (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955). With a view to understanding what conformity really is, Asch decided to carry out a relatively simple experiment where the participants had to undergo a visual perception test (Asch, 1951). The participants had two cards respectively on which there was a line of basic length and on the other cards were three other lines of three different lengths; the participants had to choose which of the three lines matched with that of basic lengths. What the participants were unaware of was that out of the groups of 7 or 9 that was predetermined, only the participant was the real subject of the study while the others were associates of the investigator who were asked to give wrong answers on purpose in more than 50% of the case. It was made sure that the real subject only announced his verdict prior to the last respondent (Asch,

In pyschology conformity can be descibed as an indiviual’s tendency to follow the unspoken rules or behaviours of the social group to which he/she belongs to or wants to be apart of. Many psychologists including , Jenness (1932), Sherif (1935) both experimented in psychology, investigating conformity and group pressure. However, perhaps the most famous conformity experiment was done by Solomon Asch (1951) and his line judgment experiment. (McLeod 2007)

Knowledge is defined to be facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education. There are two categories that fall under knowledge; personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Shared knowledge refers to what “we know because.” It can also be defined as communicated and constructed knowledge; within culture, social norms, and semiotics. Personal knowledge refers to “I know because.” An expanded definition of personal knowledge refers to personal experiences, values, and perceptions. Shared knowledge changes and evolves over time because of methods that are continuously shared. It is assembled by a group of people. Personal knowledge, on the other hand, depends crucially on the experiences of a particular individual. It is gained

Knowledge lies at the foundation of everything in society. While it may not always be noticed, it is always present. This knowledge is used in an array of processes such as creativity, experimentation, analysis, and so much more. From process to process, or area of knowledge to area of knowledge, all knowledge incorporates the processes of both transformation and description in order to evolve as justifiable beliefs. Transformative knowledge includes the product of an individual’s implementation of their personal cognitive processes to challenge traditional perspectives, while descriptive knowledge results when individuals utilize the new perspectives, allowing fresh outlooks to be perceived. While all areas of knowledge incorporate the use of both processes, some may primarily use one or the other. This can be seen in the areas of art and natural sciences. Knowledge in arts seems to primarily describe the world, while knowledge in natural sciences seeks to transform it through innovation and much more.