TOK learning objectives

Ways of Knowing

Sense perception (objectives)

• Name five human senses• Give example of limitations of human senses• Explain how the mind is active in the process of

perception• Compare the role of sense perception in two

Areas of Knowledge • Contrast ‘seeing is believing’ and ‘theory

precedes observation’ • Discuss problems of sense perception and

knowing what the reality is like

Sense perception

• Smell

• See

• Hear

• Touch

• Balance

• Taste

Sense perception

Sense perception

Sense perception

Sense perception

What did the text say?

Sense perception (objectives)

• Experience and reality

Naïve realism

Scientific reductionism

Phenomenalism

Reason (objectives)

• Identify a proposition, premise and conclusion

• Give examples of deductive, inductive and lateral reasoning

• Know some logical fallacies • Explain difference between the truth,

certainty and validity• Explain how culture may affect reasoning• Compare rationalism and empiricism

Reason

Reason

Reason

Reason

Lateral thinking

Language (objectives)

• Know the definition of ‘language’• Understand the difference between natural and

artificial languages• Recognise bias in use of words and rhetoric

strategies of influence• Explain the theories that explain language as

innate human ability• Know in outline how humans learn language• Understand main ideas of theory of ‘language

games’

Language

Language

Language

Language

Language

An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number.

MIT News June 24, 2008 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/language-0624.html

The Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil use language to express relative quantities such as "some" and "more," but not precise numbers.

Emotion (objectives)

• Know how to define ‘emotion’• Recognise facial expressions of basic human

emotions• Identify emotions based on descriptions• Give one example how knowledge and emotions

are linked• Compare the role of emotions in two Areas of

Knowledge• Know that culture affect emotional expression• Explain what emotional intelligence is

Emotion

Emotion Can you tell what emotion each person is experiencing?

Emotion Anger Fear Disgust

Surprise Happiness Sadness

Emotion

Emotional Intelligence

An ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups.

Emotion

Emotional intelligence in action

Emotion

Emotion

Emotion