Assignment:
1. Individual Assignment: Nature of Thought Paper
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain the nature of thought.
• Outline your own perceptual process and describe the types of perceptual blocks that influence your views.
• Explain thought processes and how they are changed or manipulated by perception.
• Include the following in your paper:
o Describe thinking.
• Explain sensing process.
• Define memory.
• Describe the medium.
o Identify an instance in your life in which your perception of the real situation was far from the actual facts.
o Outline your own perceptual process.
• What did you think was going on?
• What was really going on?
• Why was there such a difference?
• How did language empower or limit the expression of your thoughts?
• What did you learn about your thinking by evaluating the situation again?
o Describe the types of perceptual blocks that influence your views.
• Identify personal barriers.
• Describe thoughts.
• Illustrate an example of thought being influenced by barriers.
o Explain how thought is changed or manipulated by personal barriers.