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PSYC316 Perception and Perceptual Impairment

Updated: 07 January 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
15 April 2010 17 April 2010 Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites PSYC202 and 12cp at 200 level in PSYC or candidature in BAudiometry and PSYC101 and PSYC102 and either PESS202 or PSYC202
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PSYC358 or PSYC359 or PSYC361
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Bill Noble (wnoble@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

An Interactive Approach to Writing Essays and Research Reports in Psychology
ISBN: 9780470811238
Burton, L.J., Wiley 2nd ed. 2006
Text refers to: Semester 1 , Off Campus
Sensation and Perception with CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780495601494
Goldstein, E.B., Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2010
Text refers to: Semester 1 , On and 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 Semester Online Quiz 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 3 GA: 1-6
Mid-Semester Online Quiz 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1 GA: 1-6
Practical Report 30% 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
GA: 1-6 LO: 2 and 3
Final Examination 2 hrs 50%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
GA: 1-6 LO: 1-3

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. understand the primary modes of perceptual orientation to the environment; and
  2. describe with the problems facing people with sensory impairments.
  3. be familiar with the key elements of the three perceptual capacities and to their development and decline

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. 		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. 		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. 		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 taks require them to show familiarity with those literatures. 		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. 		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. 		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
   

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