“What role does what we expect to see – or are accustomed to seeing – play in what we observe? Discuss both sense perception and reason. This is the question I chose to answer, and my answer is that what we expect to see and are accustomed to seeing plays a large role in what we observe. Our experiences and expectations shape our sensory perception to a fault, and this is where reason comes in and corrects inaccuracies. The human brain is used to looking for patterns; we regularly observe faces, for example, and rely on them to obtain a large amount of information, whether trying to assess emotions or judging the health of others people. For this reason, our brain is constantly looking for them. When we saw a picture of a face on the moon in class, it was an example of the flaws in human sensory perception. Our brains are so accustomed to seeing faces that they begin to distinguish the general pattern of a face in various objects or places where it would not reasonably make sense for a face to exist. The brain is wired to look for patterns; sensory perception observes the face, but reason tells us that...