PSYC316 Psychology of Perception

Credit Points 6
Offering
Location Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 2 Off Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites 18cp at 200 level in PSYC including PSYC202 or candidature in BAudiometry or BPsycSc (Graduate entry pathway) and PSYC101 and PSYC102 and PSYC202
Co-requisites GradDipPsych or GradDipSocSc or BPsycSc (Graduate entry pathway) students only: 18cp at 200 level in PSYC including PSYC202
Restrictions None
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Navjot Bhullar (navjot.bhullar@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit provides an understanding of how sensory organs process energy from the environment and how the brain interprets this sensory information. This unit covers key perceptual modalities (eg vision and hearing) and introduces a range of theoretical and applied aspects underlying the psychology of perception. Students learn through class discussions, reading assignments, online activities and a major written project.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

ISBN: 9781433805615
American Psychological Association, APA 6th ed. 2010

Text refers to: Trimester 2, Off Campus

Sensation and Perception

ISBN: 9781133958499
Goldstein, E.B., Wadsworth Cengage Learning 9th ed. 2013

Text refers to: Trimester 2, Off Campus

Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
End Trimester Online Test 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)

LO: 1, 2 and 3 GA: 1-6
Mid-Trimester Online Test 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)

LO: 1 and 2 GA: 1-6
Written Assignment 30% 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)

LO: 1- 4 GA: 1-6

Final Examination 2 hrs 15 mins 50%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)

LO: 1-3 GA: 1-6


Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate coherent knowledge of various theoretical perspectives and applied aspects underlying perception;
  2. examine the key elements of the perceptual capacities and their development and decline;
  3. critically analyse the problems facing people with sensory impairments, with the ability to communicate this effectively to others; and
  4. independently evaluate and interpret the relevant empirical literature with a higher level of critical thinking skills to translate the knowledge to real-life settings.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1
Knowledge of a Discipline

In teaching, assessment and practical work, prior knowledge from earlier years of study of the discipline is drawn upon, and added to through the novel material presented in the unit, and the assessment and practical tasks required in relation to that material. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
2
Communication Skills

The nature and content of this unit is such that communication is at the heart of understanding a psychological perspective in perception and its impairment hence all components of the work involved in undertaking the unit address communication skills. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
3
Global Perspectives

The content, practical and assessment tasks of this unit offer universal perspectives to the issues addressed; the underpinning of the unit is ecological, hence enabling students to appreciate humans in relation to their social and physical circumstances. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
4
Information Literacy

The unit draws on and requires students to become familiar with internationally-based literatures, and both practical and assessment tasks require them to show familiarity with those literatures. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
5
Life-Long Learning

The skills enlisted in presenting the unit, and the assessment and practical tasks required demonstrate the open-endedness of the issues being addressed, thus encouraging ongoing learning about the problems of perception and its impairment. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
6
Problem Solving

The content and approach of the unit, and its assessment tasks, enable the students to understand that perceptual impairments throw up problems that offer no easy solutions; the practical tasks in the unit represent hands-on problem-solving activities. This is assessed in all assessment tasks.

 True True True
7
Social Responsibility

An ecological approach to understanding perception and its impairment demonstrates the social-communal basis of any approach to rehabilitation in relation to perceptual impairment.

 True True
8
Team Work

In the approach to teaching and practical activities, especially at the intensive school, students engage with each other in co-operative ways through class and small-group discussions and tasks, and help each other in understanding the concepts and problems being addressed.

 True True