These articles will be placed on reserve in the library. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Highly recommended if you are considering graduate school. Emphasis is placed on visual and auditory perception. Lecture, discussion and weekly laboratories.
Students conduct original research.
As all of our knowledge must be acquired through our sense of the world around us, sensation and perception underlie our entire existence and growth. Furthermore, our ability to function within our environment is defined by our ability to perceive, or categorize, the sensory input as something or event in our environment. As such, we will explore the neural processes that underlying sensation and cognitive organization underlying perception. Any more than 3 unexcused absences will result in the deduction of five percentage points from your overall grade. As participation is a major part of your grade, you are expected to have read the material assigned for that class period.