you will be required to submit five full pages for each answer. Each question must include its own reference page.
1) In chapter two of Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Heuer makes the following observation
People tend to think of perception as a passive process. We see, hear, smell, taste, or feel
stimuli that impinge upon our senses. We think that if we are at all objective, we record
what is actually there. Yet perception is demonstrably an active rather than a passive
process; it constructs rather than records reality. (Heuer, 2017, p. 7)
1) In chapter two of Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Heuer makes the following observation
People tend to think of perception as a passive process. We see, hear, smell, taste, or feel
stimuli that impinge upon our senses. We think that if we are at all objective, we record
what is actually there. Yet perception is demonstrably an active rather than a passive
process; it constructs rather than records reality. (Heuer, 2017, p. 7)
Discuss the implications of this quote for the practice of intelligence analysis.
2) In chapter six Heuer (2017) observes “Major intelligence failures are usually caused by failures of analysis, not failures of collection” (p. 65). Discuss what makes this result likely as well as how it can be avoided.
