Christina Bally 12/2/2016

Today in class, we learned about perception and how it alters how one reflects on a series of events. The first thing we were ordered to do was to sign onto the google classroom and make a post containing what exact events had taken place up to the point in which this assignment was addressed. Everyone posted their response and we then went over several of the responses from the class. A reoccurring phenomenon was people telling the events that had happened but not including all the full details of every single event. I had been in the bathroom prior to the assignment being addressed and therefore was at a great disadvantage. The other students were able to recap several more events that had happened. Although my post did not contain any lies, it did not have the full story of what had happened in the classroom. We then took notes on perception and discussed input versus output. The success or failure of senses relates to input. This has to do with failures of the human brain especially memory. The success or failure of language relates to output. Output could also be alerted by lies of  omission. This is when although one may not be deliberately trying to lie, not telling the complete truth alters what is being told. We then discussed how modernists believe that truth is subjective and that there is a gray area to it.

This picture symbolizes the modernistic idea in which we discussed today. This is that truth is based on perception and that it is subjective. In this image, there is a grey area to the truth of how many objects are present. From one side, the person processes there being three which on the left, the person processes there being four.