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PSYC316 Perception and Perceptual Impairment

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Online level Level C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
20 September 2008 22 September 2008 Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites 12cp in Psychology at 200 level and PSYC 202 or equivalent
Co-requisites
Restrictions PSYC 358, 359, 361
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Anthony Marks (amarks5@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

An ecological approach is adopted to the study of the perceptual activities of seeing, hearing and touch. Students will be familiarised in lectures with the key elements of these three perceptual capacities and to their development and decline. Additionally, seminars will address the psycho-social problems associated with impairments of sight and hearing.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Writing for Psychology
ISBN: 9780170128544
O'Shea, R.P., Thomson 5th ed. 2006
Sensation and Perception Package
ISBN: 9780495261995
Goldstein, E.B., Belmont Thompson Wadsworth 7th ed. 2007
Note: Package contains the text, a CDROM and a Virtual Lab Manual
Recommended Material
Optional
None
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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