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Pingting YuA0460090
Thinking Processes
Professor Witmer
Oct 19, 2004
Seeing pictures is a reminder of the emotional basis of learning. In Seeing Pictures, the author Abercrombie is concerned with the origin and development of judgment, the relation between inner and outer worlds, the selective and interpretative nature of perception and the role of context or total situation. In his discussion, Abercrombie explains two important concepts: schemata and context. He demonstrated that the perception of pictures can be divided into two kinds: a complex interaction of on the one hand, prior expectations and knowledgewhat they called schemata, and the other one is the information present in the picture. Abercrombies had demonstrated that under certain quite ordinary conditions dramatic and remarkable changes could occur in our reading of pictures. For example, the illustration will probably not make sense to all of us.
2 Abercrombies definition of schemata and the function of it
On one hand, Abercrombie defines schemata as a data structure, implemented in the brain, that functions to govern perceptual exploration of the world so that appropriate perceptual tests are applied at appropriate times and places. He also says that schemata are tools, which help us to see, evaluate and respond. The effect of schemata is that once if we have made sense of somethingthat is once we have been given a schema with which to interpret itwe cannot go back to our former ignorance or innocence. Moreover, the schemata appear to take place in the picture itself, even though we know that the change has in fact been in our reading and not in the picture...