Where+It+All+Began

=From The Beginning....=

The concept of perception has been a constant theme throughout the history of psychology, even before it had an official name.

Ancient Greece philosopher, Parmenides, began to theorize about perception as he questioned fundamental truths, the Mind-Body Problem and the disparity between appearance and reality (McConnell, 2009). Perhaps Heraclitus was among the first to give perception a real chance when he insisted that the universe was constantly changing (opposed to many of his peers) and that to some extent we must be able to trust our senses, accompanied with reason, logic, and wisdom, in order to understand the world around us (McConnell, 2009). James Mill and Aristotle introduced the principals of association (McConnell, 2009). Although Aristotle began work on this concept first, James Mill expounded on it. We can see how this effected illusion perception here.

Proposed top-down processing when prior knowledge is used to actively interpret incoming sensations (McConnell, 2009). Hume was among the first to suggest that we could in fact trust our senses as a way of knowing and gave rise to research in perception involving the senses (Crane, 2005). Find his information here. Find her information here. Find his information here.