Course Name	Psychology of Perception
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Lee, Yang
	Department	Psychology

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

We could not survive but perceive world. Perception is to know about world. This has a purpose for survival. The processes not include only the conscious to know, but also the sensation to see, extending to superconsciousness. Thus, understanding the whole processes of perception could not be got with the present paradigms of psychology. So it contributes to construct the perspectives of daily-life and to acquire the basic systems of psychology.

The course is progressed in English and helped through internet communication.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Coren, Porac & Ward (1979) Sensation & Perception

Lachman, Lachman, & Butterfield (1979) Cognitive psychology & Information processing

Bruce & Green(1992) Visual perception; Physiology, Psychology & Ecology

이양(2006) 심리학으로 본 기

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

What are the philosophical background of the direct perception and the indirect perception?

Psychophysics Report

Could Psychology integrate with modern physics and oriental epistemology?

What is the future of Psychology?

Grading Scheme:

- Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(30%), Report(30%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

This class concerns the core contents, selected from the exclusiveness for psychology of perception, and discusses the future of psychology.

1. Perceptual phenomena of daily life.

1st week Space perception is a cue construction.

2nd week Movement perception is primary.

2. View of perception; direct perception and indirect one.

3rd week Form perception is the constructive processes.

4th week Form perception is the organizational processes.

3. Psychophysics.

5th week The classic psychopysics and the modern one.

6th week The reaction time: The subtraction method and the additive one.

7th week Mid Exam Seminar; Psychophysics Report

4. Sensation and Consciousness.

8th week Sensation analyzer

9th week Consciousness analysis

10th week The Model of Cognitivism

11th week What is the properties of calculation model?

5. Perception and movement.

12th week Perceptual tuning through action.

13th week The ecological approaches

14th week Could Psychology integrate with modern physics and oriental epistemology?

15th week Final Exam What is the future of Psychology?

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-751-5778           e-mail: yanglee@gnu.ac.kr