DAY+80+MISPERCEIVING+REALITY+AND+PERCEPTION

__//**Misperceiving Reality and Perceptions**//__ Fill out a vocabulary square for the word **//__perception.__//**

Is this a picture of an old woman or a young woman?

If someone saw something different from you were they wrong?

They might have been standing at different angles. __**Proximity**__ and perspective impacts how we view and recall events.
 * What are some of the reasons that 2 eyewitnesses may remember the accident differently?
 * They might have known one or both of the drivers and the **__stress__** of their friend being hurt may have changed their perspective.
 * The police might not ask for their story for several days. **__Time__** impacts how well we remember details of an event.
 * They might have been in a car accident themselves and mixed up the memories of their own accident with this one. **__Personal experience__** effects how we think about things.