Psychology of Perception

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The evaluation method follows ESEC procedures and rules. The student chooses one of the following methods: evaluation during the semester or exam.

A. The semester evaluation includes the following criteria:

1. Written test(s) (60% of final grade);

2. Theoretical and practical report (30% of final grade);

3. Participation in class practical exercises (10% of final grade).

B. The exam evaluation will consist of a written test that will address all the summarized unit contents (100% of the final grade).

– Understand how we perceive the world, giving primacy to the stimulis that guide selective attention and stimulate important cognitive processes associated with information processing;

– Learn to value the motivational processes associated with the construction of selective perception;

– Learn the theoretical models, concepts and most significant processes in the field of psychology of perception;

– Analyze and understand the characteristics of the stimulis that selectively orient the viewer’s attention (color, motion, intensity, repetition and texture);

– Recognize and identify intra and interpersonal as well as socio-cultural processes, underlying the cognitive construction of visual images.

1. Introduction to Psychology of Perception: background and definition.

2. The sensory processes and their initial studies.

2.1 The contribution of Psychophysics in the study of sensory processes: associated concepts.

2.2 General overview of the senses.

3. Theories of sensation and perception: major theories in the study of perception.

3.1 Max Wertheimer, Gestalt psychology and the Laws of Perceptual Organization;

3.2 Theories of Direct Perception and bottom-up processes;

3.3. Theories of Indirect Perception and top-down processes.

4. Perception: a global perspective (optional themes)

4.1 Visual perception: perceptual forms and contents

4.2 The perception of auditory patterns

4.3 Perception and Perceptual Selection: Attentional processes

4.4 Perception and Memory

5. Perception and Image:

5.1 The personnel, social and cultural construction of perception and the visual arts.

• - Exam - 100.0%

• - Mini Tests - 60.0%
• - Resolution Problems - 30.0%
• - Practical Exercises - 10.0%

NAO

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GOLDSTEIN, E. B. (2010). Sensation and perception (8th). Wadsworth, Belmont: Cengage Learn.

MACKAY, W. A. (2006). Neurofisiologia Sem Lágrimas (3a ed). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

NOE, A. (2016): Strange tools: Art and human nature. NY: Hill and Wang.

SACKS, O. (1995). An anthropologist on Mars: Seven paradoxical tales. NY: Vintage/Randon House.

STERNBERG, R. J. (2008). Psicologia Cognitiva. Porto Alegre.: Artmed.

SCHWARTZ, B. L., & KRANTZ, J. H. (2016). Sensation and perception. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Beau Lotto: Thriving in a world that doesn’t exist

Poetry of perception

Psychology of Perception: Resources

https://isle.hanover.edu/