PSYC304 Week 1 Forum: Part 2 Processes in perception.

PSYC304 Week 1 Forum: Part 2 Processes in perception.

PSYC304 Week 1 Forum: Part 2 Processes in perception.

There are two parts to this assignment. The first part is an introduction and the second part is related to the course.

Part 1. Introduction

This part of the assignment should be a minimum of 150 words and requires completion for credit for the first forum.

You’ve probably experienced being required to do this in prior classes. It’s an important element of any class because we enjoy knowing who we are talking to. Where are you stationed or do you live? What are some of your interests? What do you enjoy doing when you’re not in this class working away learning about sensation and perception? What is one thing that you wonder about perception? Please include three specific goals that you hope to attain from this course.

(NOTE: Please don’t copy an idea from the course syllabus or text–this question is about what you bring to the class before ever seeing those materials).

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Part 2. Processes in perception. This part of the forum should be 150 words.

After watching the two videos below, discuss the role of higher-level or “cognitive” processes in perception. Then describe a situation in which you initially thought you saw or heard something, but then realized that your initial perception was in error. What was the role of bottom-up and top-down processing in this process of first having an incorrect perception and then realizing what was actually there?

Support your belief and use specific examples. You may refer to your assigned Week 1 readings or draw on scholarly online resources. The latter must be academic in nature (e.g. from the APUS online library) and not from pop culture and/or commercial websites, blogs, opinion sites, etc.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.