Complex Declarative Learning

To answer question 1: I'm taking a drawing class right now. Arguably, a lot of the learning has been procedural, but I've also experienced non-monotonic changes in my knowledge of visual perception. Or at least, I think it was non-monotonic. I had actually partially learned some of the concepts before from random readings in a psych book I found about human perception. However, until this class, I don't think my knowledge representation of human visual perception had actually changed. Prior to this class, on a surface level, I could accept that sure, we don't actually see things the way I think/feel I see them, but my mental model of vision hadn't actually changed; I was not open to non-monotonic change. So for me, I really needed that relevatory moment, aka needed to viscerally feel understand how perception worked before I was willing to let go of my previous concept of vision.