Week 6, 7 & 8: Sensation and Perception
What will we learn in this chapter?
- What is sensation and how does it enter the central nervous system?
- What are sensory thresholds, and who were some of the early pioneers in the study of sensory thresholds?
- What are some of the factors that influence our ability to perceive, and intentional blindness, signal detection theory, and the Muller-Lyer illusion?
- how do they relate to such concepts as sensory adaptation,
- What is light, and what are the three aspects related to light?
- How are “waves” related to vision and sound, and what is meant by amplitude, wavelength, and frequency?
Course Material
- Week 1-2: Introduction to Psychology
- Week 3: Learning: Pavlov & Classical Conditioning
- Week 4: Learning: Operant Conditioning and Difference between Classical and Operant Conditioning
- Week 5: Learning: Other Types of Learning and Observational Learning
- Week 6, 7 & 8: Sensation and Perception
- Week 9: Mid Term Exam
- Week 10 & 11: Memory
- Week 12: Emotion and Motivation
- Week 13 & 14: Social Psychology
- Week 15: Personality: Unconscious material
- Week 16: Personality: Psychosexual Stages and Defence Mechanism
- Week 17: Personality: Trait Approach to Personality
- Week 18: Final Term Exam
- Chapters 13
- Department English(SCB)
- Teacher
Muhammad Asim
