1. Chapter 2’s main points were all about perception. For example, it discussed visual, face, and auditory perception. It also talked about the Bottom-up processing and the top-down processing. Where bottom-up emphasizes object recognition and top-down emphasizes how a person's mental processes have an influence on object recognition.
2. I believe chapter 2 gives a lot more information. I have heard of the different perceptions before, but I did not know exactly what they meant. I really enjoyed reading about the feature-analysis approach. I never realized the process we go through to recognize letters of the alphabet.
3. I don't think that there is one thing that I could pick out that I didn't understand. If i didn't get it the first time I read it, I went back and read it again and I used the internet to look up some stuff.
4. In my classroom, I use visual perception a lot. One way is teaching geometry and teaching the different shapes. There are a couple of hands-on activities that I have done where the students had to use materials to draw their shapes. I felt like after doing that, they were able to visually see what a square is or what a triangle is. By doing this, later on when they take the test they can go back and visualize their shapes that they created.
5. The part in the book that talks about visual perception and Gestalt’s psychology relates to this. I do believe it helps because I have had student’s come back and say they would visualize what they did to picture the shape.
6. I think it explains that students need that visualization sometimes. All students learn differently, but this seems to be more effective especially for that chapter.
7. I use this right before I start my geometry unit. It is an opening activity to the chapter.
8. I guess if there was another way to accomplish this I would like to know!! I feel that it works well with my students, it does take up a whole class period, but I feel that it’s beneficial and it’s cheap!!