Blink question #2
- Three fatal mistakes: Gladwell explains that our attitude and thoughts towards other is always being changed. The example of this is the police incident that Gladwell writes about. The perception of the police towards the suspect was to make him fit a description. “
- The theory of mind reading: this section relates to our study on perception because it describes how every facial movement that a person makes, is influenced by their emotions and thought. “It was a gold mine of information.”
- The naked face: my making certain faces and moving certain facial muscles the body will actually respond by doing bodily functions that are associated with that emotion. “…the expression alone is sufficient to create marks changed in the autonomic nervous system”
- A man, a woman, and a lightswitch: the gestures that we make are of equal importance with perception because it gives us clues and direction on where to look and what to look for. “Our eyes would follow the direction that nick is pointing.”
- Arguing with a dog: this section relates perception to reflexes. When an occasion occurs which calls for spilt second reactions, the mind only focuses on what the eyes choose to. The object then becomes the only focus. “My vision changed as soon as I started to shoot. It went from seeing the whole picture, to just seeing the suspect’s head.”
- Running out of white space: the example of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan shows how slow our reactions are to events that happen close to the source. The white space really does determine the reaction time that it takes to perceive an event. The Reagan incident is a great example because the white space was less than 5 feet. “Reaction time didn’t make a difference because he was too close.
- something in my mind just told me I didn’t have to shoot yet: the perception of this section is that some people can be trained to slow their reactions. This means that they can slow their perception time, to judge things more thoroughly.
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