Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes

Topics

• Sensation and attention

  • Nature and varieties of stimulus
  • Sense modalities and their limits
  • Selective and sustained attention

• Perception

  • Processing approaches and the perceiver
  • Principles of perceptual organisation
  • Space, depth and distance cues
  • Constancies and illusions
  • Socio-cultural influences on perception

Learning objectives

1. Explain a perceptual experience using organisation principles or depth cues.