TOK - Perception

The 2004 Primary School perception & cognative development visit: pictures & evaluations.

Link: The Senses Challenge from BBC Science.
Link: Human Senses & Human Mind from the BBC - Both good for Ways of Knowing & Perception.
Link: Human Instinct & Psychology- BBC pages on Human Sciences & behaviour.
Link: Steve Lehar's brilliant cartoon presentation of the epistemological debate between realism & representationalism.
Link: Strange New World - The Matrix game from TPM online.

Piaget’s particular insight was the role of maturation (simply growing up) in children’s increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. A combination of optimal development stages and environmental stimulus therefore shape childrens’ cognitive and behavioural development: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/piaget.htm
Skinner’s theories ultimately lead to the idea of the environment shaping an individual’s behaviour. If you control the rewards and punishments which the environment gives in response to behaviours, then you can shape behaviour. This has been enormously influential upon any processes and theories involving socialisation, eg. education and all forms of child care, other forms of care and particularly rehabilitation: http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/psy/behav.html
All in the mind : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/allinthemind.shtml

St. Julian's TOK - Perception