Knowledge Vs Shared Knowledge

Knowledge can be defined as the human ability to interpret information, developed from a combination of data, experience and individual comprehension. It is separated in two different parts which interact; personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Shared knowledge is greatly organised, it is based on its environment and is the production of many individuals. Even though one person may have the ability to affect shared knowledge, it is not dependent on only one person as others have the opportunity to correct and share their own ideas and beliefs as well adding to already existed knowledge, it is the holistic view of a population’s contribution and its environment. Shared knowledge, whether slowly or rapidly, is altered and evolved over time

Knowledge, once it becomes shared, has the ability to affect individual, personal knowledge, thus influencing their prior perception and creating new personal knowledge. This journey of information continues when many people, in the same community, develop a similar perception, this therefore creates a new state of shared knowledge. So what we see within societies is an ongoing circle, constantly transforming shared knowledge into personal and vive versa, allowing it to develop, helping people to mature and making society progress. I will be investigating this through looking at two areas of knowledge: Art and Psychology. A useful example resembling this interconnection is the painting “Las Meninas” by Diego Velazquez. This is due to its influence on different artists, who were intrigued by it and inspired to recreate it in their own personal manner. One of these influenced artists was Pablo Picasso, whose personal knowledge was shaped by this very famous

It occurs when an individual is in a situation where there is a threat or they are being judges and are seen stereotypically. Steele and Aronson in 1995 conducted an experiment to find out what is the effect of stereotype in performance. The participants were given a 30-minute verbal test which included different multiple choice questions. When they told the one group that it was a test of their verbal abilities, The African American participants scored much lower than the European American participants while in another group where they were presented with the same task but as a laboratory task that was used to study how certain problems are solved, African Americans students scored higher than the first group and was matched the one of the European American