Pareidolia

This week we learnt about Pareidolia, it's like seeing an image in an image. It is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus being perceived as significant. We were given 45 minutes to find images of it within the school compound and these are what I've found.

Water Fountain

The wall outside the gallery

The emergency plug

I inverted the lift buttons with the handicapped signed and it looks like eyes with a mouth

The clock created the eyes of the face

The cabinet in the in the lounge

These are examples of pareidolia I found in the school vicinity.

Collaging those my group found together:

There are so many examples of such around us in our daily life, if we could just spend time or even pay more attention to some things around us, you could simply find them anywhere around you.

Class Assignment ( Week 8 Vacation Assignment )

Tree Bark

Hard 

Strong

Dry

Rough

Things are can be made into:

Furniture

Sofa

Bed

Table

Instruments:

Guitar 

Guitar sticks

Paper Materials:

Notebook

Emotions

Peas in a Pod - Happy

The expressions of the peas are happy and their degree of happiness are different. The peas could be take out of the pod and it's really cute

Care Bear - Love

Care bears are known to represent different meanings with different signs. I love the one in orange and to hug them makes me feel love therefore it represents love to me.

Spider toy - Fear

Spiders are hairy and children are really scared of spiders and bugs toys.

Angry bird - Anger

Feaces - Disgust

Stress Ball - Stress / relief

Stress balls are for people who are stress to relieve their stress, seeing it reminds you of relieve stress

Electric Shock Chewing Gum Toy - Shock / Hurt

These toys really turns someone green after trying it, I've seen people who got so shocked by these toys. I've personally not try it but I heard it's really painful.

Snap Toy - Excitement / Tension

This toy requires players to press down the teeth one by one and it's mouth closes at any random point of time so you wouldn't know when it snaps, it makes the player really excited as to expect when it SNAPS.

Food Toys - Hungry / Happy

Looking at these food can bring you to think about real food and make one really hungry and food makes one really happy.

Winnie The Pooh - Friendship

Winnie The Pooh and friends are known for friendship and so I choose them to represent friendship. I love Piglet and Pooh the most.

Lego - Proud / Pleasure / Bored

Once you finish fixing a set of Lego, the sense of satisfaction makes you really proud of yourself. I really enjoy fixing Lego so to me it's a pleasure. Some people may find it boring or tiring doing it because they do not have the passion for it and it's a rather expensive hobby.

Lateral Thinking

This week's lesson was about thinking out of the norm. We're suppose to think like how normal people wouldn't think and come out with ideas.

First, we had to think of how to draw the diagram given in one stroke without lifting up our pen and it took us quite awhile before we realise the solution for it.

 It wasn't easy yet not difficult as you could come up with the solution once and you'll forget how you even got it till a few times. Our group couldn't stop trying till someone did and shared it.

The 2nd assignment was to shift 3 balls in the given diagram to change the direction of it. I was the first to came up with the solution and shared it with the group. It was quite easy, it took me just 15seconds to come up with the solution.

We had one question of whether to pick the candle, oil lamp, wooden stick to be lighted up first if we had a matchstick. I personally choose candle because once you light the candle, you could light every other thing else, but of course you had to lit the matchstick first.

And lastly, how could we resolve the problem of having your neighbour chicken kept coming into your garden to eat up your plants without offending him/her.

We came up with these solutions as a group. I came up with the sensor idea that every time the chicken invades, the alarm would allow a speaker to speak so that the chickens will be afraid.

  

Basically these sums up what we did in class and I am really amaze with what my group can come up with every week, their creative ideas and all just amuse me.