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BUS 101
Thinking Critically Chapter 4 Perceiving and Believing Perceiving is actively selecting organizing and interpreting what is experienced by your senses. Your senses are seeing, hearing, smell, touch and taste. You use these to construct your beliefs of the world around you and create lenses that reflect your past experiences and u
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Thinking Critically Chapter 4 Perceiving and Believing Perceiving is actively selecting organizing and interpreting what is experienced by your senses. Your senses are seeing, hearing, smell, touch and taste. You use these to construct your beliefs of the world around you and create lenses that reflect your past experiences and unique personalities. You also want to become aware of your lenses so you can understand why you view things the way you do. Your senses are bombarded with different things all the time; this is what the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James called “a bloomin’ buzzin’ confusion”. The reason you can handle it is because you cannot hear, see, feel, smell or taste everything around you. Your senses can only pick up a portion of these things just like certain animals can smell or hear better than you. When out in the world you do not just record what is around you. You are also an active participant, trying to understand and interpret what you are encountering. When you actively perceive the sensations you are experiencing, you are engaged in three distinct activities 1. Selecting certain sensations to pay attention to 2. Organizing these sensations into a design or pattern 3. Interpreting what this design or pattern means to you
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