Chapter Summary:
Observation is a process of sensing, perceiving and thinking. Sensing is collecting data through the sense organs. Perceiving is holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it. It requires us to stay awake, take our time, give full attention and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening. It help us to discover new knowledge, self understanding and recognize our strengths and weaknesses.
Chapter 1 of TFY quiz pg 38 Obervation skill:
- Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for answer; on the contrary observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish. False
- The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory True
- In thinking, the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions. True
- Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe True
- An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his bath, discovered the means of measuring the volume of an irregular solid by the displacement of water True
- Agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed. False
- Perception and sensation are synonyms. True
- Assimilation, according to piaget, is an experience of easily understanding something that readily fits into our preexisting schemes or worldview. True
- It is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time. if we want to feel whether a pair of new shoes fits properly ,we have to pay attention True
- The word thinking, according to the dictionary, has only one meaning. False
