TOK essay on memory IB
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4. The traditional TOK diagram indicates four ways of knowing. Propose the inclusion of a fifth way of knowing selected from intuition, memory or imagination, and explore the knowledge issues it may raise in two areas of knowledge.
Word count: 1207
Memory is a tool people use to process things they come to learn about the world. In psychology memory is described by the term cognitive processes which include perception, thinking, problem solving, memory, language and attention. Cognition is ones mental perception of the world like images, words and concepts. Memory is not an exact copy of experiences but an outline. What people actually remember and what they have been told by someone else, is mixed so the thing people remember and thinks is the truth is a lie. This is called false memory and the brain would make an illusion or use imagination to twist the truth around. In this connection where people can manipulate memory questions may arise about the trustworthiness in a witness testimony. Also when people can manipulate memory how reliable is memory as a way of knowing.
If a person witnessed a robbery and testified to the police about what they saw, you would not believe that a person would lie but if the policeman were to ask the wrong question people would subconsciously lie about what they saw. For example if a police man could ask, what colour shirt was he wearing? The witness would thing about the colour of the shirt but if instead he asked, what colour shirt was he wearing? Green? Blue? The witness might mention one of those colours the police man mentioned. So the witness could accidently give a false testimony because the policeman’s question was not neutral hence, the witness got false memory.
This would be a connection to history as a area of knowing, history books consist of memories written down. Some history books are of primary memory, written by people who have experienced a historical aspect and secondary
4. The traditional TOK diagram indicates four ways of knowing. Propose the inclusion of a fifth way of knowing selected from intuition, memory or imagination, and explore the knowledge issues it may raise in two areas of knowledge.
Word count: 1207
Memory is a tool people use to process things they come to learn about the world. In psychology memory is described by the term cognitive processes which include perception, thinking, problem solving, memory, language and attention. Cognition is ones mental perception of the world like images, words and concepts. Memory is not an exact copy of experiences but an outline. What people actually remember and what they have been told by someone else, is mixed so the thing people remember and thinks is the truth is a lie. This is called false memory and the brain would make an illusion or use imagination to twist the truth around. In this connection where people can manipulate memory questions may arise about the trustworthiness in a witness testimony. Also when people can manipulate memory how reliable is memory as a way of knowing.
If a person witnessed a robbery and testified to the police about what they saw, you would not believe that a person would lie but if the policeman were to ask the wrong question people would subconsciously lie about what they saw. For example if a police man could ask, what colour shirt was he wearing? The witness would thing about the colour of the shirt but if instead he asked, what colour shirt was he wearing? Green? Blue? The witness might mention one of those colours the police man mentioned. So the witness could accidently give a false testimony because the policeman’s question was not neutral hence, the witness got false memory.
This would be a connection to history as a area of knowing, history books consist of memories written down. Some history books are of primary memory, written by people who have experienced a historical aspect and secondary
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