TOK in and out of the box

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  1. 2. Silvia is in a heavy debate. She believes that the world is purely objective and that we have no influence on how we perceive the world. However, her opponent _________ believes that we put a lens on the things we see and therefore there cannot be an objective reality.
  2. 3. Thomas Kuhn took this idea and broke it down so that we could see how we got there. From Normal science, we would hit an anomaly. This anomaly would reoccur or other anomalies would soon follow; thus creating questions and uncertainties. Our lives would then be in a crisis, a panic to understand. But over time we would come to a revolution and our idea of what once was has now be altered. What is this idea?
  3. 5. In a psychology experiment, the researchers are trying to test what the ultimate level of stress that kittens can be exposed to before it kills them. The kittens are running on a minor treadmill while electrodes are used to measure brain activity. The experimenters intend on stopping before the kitten dies, but if it does die, that’s too bad. This experiment is can be categorized as a __________.
  4. 8. Nils was in her third trimester when she experienced the horrible devastation of 9/11 in New York city. When her baby grew up, she moved to Wyoming where she began she life but she started to develop similar symptoms for stress and panic yet she had never experienced anything of the sort. This passing on of a symptom that isn’t a DNA alteration, is called what?
  5. 9. Tom is sitting in TOK class when he hears something hitting the window and sees a bird fall to the ground. Shocked, he shares this news with his classmates, but everyone disregards him as they are too caught up in Ms. Krumvieda’s interesting teachings. Arnold, however, decides to test the validity or truth of Tom’s statement. He opens the window and sees the bird lying on the ground outside the classroom. This is in agreement with Tom’s claim, which makes it valid. Arnold’s testing is an example of _____.
  6. 12. Josie is taking a psychology test. She is asked whether our perception is affected by our biological build-up or our cognition. In psychology, it is impossible to choose only one answer and disregard the other, so we would regard this limited choice as a ______.
  7. 13. We have been taught in school that the world looks a certain way through the use of Maps. Certain maps though haven’t given us an accurate reading of what the world should look like. The___________________ is more or less conformal and more or less divided into equal areas.
  8. 14. Everyone is wearing black, but Jai is wearing purple. He is an example of an _____.
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  1. 1. Miguel wanted to become a surgeon, so he went to apply for the job but unfortunately he was declined because he had only just started working at the hospital a week ago as an intern. He had no skills, nor was he an expert in any flied of medicine. In order for him to become a surgeon, Malcolm Gladwell would suggest he would need to follow the _________________
  2. 4. Simon went to Egypt where he saw the great pyramids that the ancient Egyptians had slaved to make. When he got back to school, his History teacher began to talk about the Ancient Egyptians. A lot of the kids in the class hadn’t been to Egypt but Simon was using ______________ ________ ___________________, meaning that he knows really how it looks like because he was actually there to see them.
  3. 6. Neo has been given a choice, to learn the truth about the world he lives in or to accept the world as it is. He chooses to question the environment as he enters the world of the ____________.
  4. 7. Leonardo was said to be a genius. He was determined, intelligent, inquisitive, and curious. But today people know how he became to be so extraordinary. The argument is whether he was born with such talents or whether his environment shaped who he was. What this debate called?
  5. 10. Kean is a full IB student. He works very hard in school but he has one teacher that he feels is extremely lazy. The teacher only grades his tests after two months and Kean feels that it is very unfair. For the past two months, he has complained to the teacher every class for not having his work. Kean is an example of a ___________.
  6. 11. This theory favors the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate as it believes that people are much like a black piece of paper at the beginning of their lives, but as they grow older they start to write their story by filling out this piece of paper with content in the form of knowledge through experiences.