Colin Turnbull

Colin Turnbull was an enlgish man, born in London. His family was an upper class, with a lot of riches. He studied in the University of Oxford in England. He lived with his gay partner Joe Towles. They worked together for thirty year working in the resaerch from the african tribes. Later on Joe Towles died from aids. Turnbull studied philosophy, politics and music. After the world war 2 he studied anthropology, specialized in the African field. Turnbull got a big interest in the african tribes, after making a trip by motorcycle in East Africa, there was we he first saw the pygmies tribes. He had made many trips to africa with a total of 6 trips. After his first apperance to africa he retured again but this time working for Royal Anthropological Institute. He had been working for a lot of Universities, and museum. Turnbull had a lot of poscicion over the years becoming Assistant Curator of African Ethnology in the American Museum. He had also worked in Canada as a geologist in gold mine. He had written a lot of scripts for radio, and television. He also made documentary in many canadian television about his work with the pygmies tribes.Turnbull las poscition was in the George Washington University, were he taught writing, fieldwork, farming, and making music. He left the University 10 years after he died in 1994.

What factors influence our perception

What are the external factors that influence our perception?
The external factors that influence our perception can be the people that are around us, and the enviroment in which we are located. This is one of the most common external factors that can change how you view things. The enviroment can influence a lot because for example if you are living in a very high enviroment, that you have all the things that you need, it is diffrent from the perception that a person that doesn't have nothing, and is doing the possible to get things. The people that are around us can influence a lot because, they may persuate you to do thing that you don't want to do. Like for example a person that likes to drink alcohol, and tries to persuate a person that hates it to drink it, it might change the perception by the person that doesn't like it.

What are the internal factors that influence our perception?
The internal factors that can influence our perception are the dreams, the amount of intelligence that each person have. Nobody have the same type of thinking, and that is why each people internally can have different thinking. The influence from the dreams change the perception because, if you have it in your brain, and you think every time that same thing, you start to see the difference. And the amount of intelligence can also influence your perception because if you are not as intelligence as other people it is logical that you don't like the same things. Like for example a person that has a lot of knowledge, and that they like math has a very different type of perception from a person that is not good at all from math.

5 things I feel positively:

-Soccer: I like it because I have passion for this sport.

-Eat food: I like to eat food, and it also helps me relax

-Hear music: I like because I can choose the music for the mood that I am.

-Sleep: I like to sleep because it helps me get energy, and it also helps me to relax.

-Watch TV: this is like a hobby, when I am not doing nothing I normally watch TV.

5 things I feel negatively:

-Foul: I don't like when people hit me or let me fall while I am playing.

-People starring: I don't like when people stare to me.

-Playing roughtly: I don't like when people play very rought while playing soccer.

-Eat to much: I hate when I eat more than I need, and then my stomach hearts a lot.

-People that don't know how to drive: I hate people that are bad to drive, and that they don't know when to respect the signs.

Is perception reality?

Every people in the world have a different type of reality. So that means that people have different type of PERCEPTION in reality. The perception in reality is what makes a person unique. Many people have many ideas of their own, and that is why they have different point of view for the same event. One example that makes this real is like a person loves soccer, see soccer, play soccer, think every time about soccer, but another person maybe hates soccer because they say that it is rought, and bad. This is why the perception of the first person that lives soccer is not the same as the one who hates soccer. This means that yes! perception is reality in many type of way. People have different type of thinking, and they also have different type of knowlege. Another example is that a person may have the perception of loving math, but they are bad in it, As the different in a person who is really good in math, but they hated it. As you can see they have really different type of perception no matter if they are good or bad in it. Different think in many ways some can have the same idea but different tastes.

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Why I study psychology?

I am studying psychology because I like psychology, and the things that I learned last year was very interesting. Psychology is important because it studies the human brain, and the things that occur in it. Psychology is the study of the functions that the human brain gives, and how it reacts. Psychology may help me because it is very helpfull for me to understand what the human brain is capable to do, and it functions that it may give.