Visual Search of the Environment

Humans when searching our environment seek patterns. The ability to inherently find patterns among pieces of information leads humans to perception. Humans are able to focus and direct their search of the environment to elicit the information needed to form the patterns which make up perception and lead to cognition. The !Kung use visual search of their environment to find signs that an animal has passed through recently. !Kung are able to perceive, find the patterns that they recognize, as signs, the tracks that an animal leaves behind.

Perceptual patterning forms the basis for cognition. Humans search and find patterns in order to see, understand and act within our environment. This inherent ability to make patterns out of stimulus, in order to complete a task or to enable subconscious learning to take place is called "metaculture." This is what gave Helen Keller the ability to pr

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ce" to "constructed knowledge." Women who experience "silence" are women with undeveloped or underdeveloped abilities to use representational thought processes. These women are dependant on others to tell them what and how to think; they are unable to use language symbolically and think for themselves. The ability to use and understand words but not to be able to use them to define knowledge gleaned from your own actions is the stage of received knowledge. The levels of ability to use words, spoken and written, to think, defines a person's cognitive state. Spoken words are needed to be a functioning member of society and to participate in culture. All knowledge is constructed by the knower. This knowledge is constructed from verbal language; the ability to manipulate words, spoken and written, and ideas symbolically through language allows humans to have a culture of spoken words and a high culture of written words. Endnotes Bibliography Belenky, Mary Field, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. U.S.: Basic Books, 1986. Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. n.p.: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. "Lectur
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