Description:

This course is designed to provide students with introduction to study of sensation, perception. The course material is divided between "lower-level" sensory psychology and "higher-level" perceptual processes. Most of the course will be concerned with human behavioral (psychophysical) experiments, but much of our knowledge of sensory systems derives from physiological experiments; the results from these experiments and their interpretation will also be discussed.

Texts:

Sekuler. Perception. (3rd ed.) 1994

Grading and Requirements:

Exams: 3, mostly multiple choice with some short answer, 20% each.

Final: comprehensive, 40%.

Both lecture material and material from assigned readings covered on exams and final.

Prerequisites:

Psychology 301 with a grade of C or better, Psychology 418 or an equivalent statistics course with a grade of C or better, and upper division standing.

Updated 24 February 1998
Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
University of Texas at Austin

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