Fall 2008

Administrative Requirements: 1. Attendance: Regular attendance is expected. Some of the lecture material is not in your text and there will be questions from lecture on exams.

2. Course Evaluation: Exams will be part multiple-choice and part short essay. (The short essay part will be worth 25% of the exam.) Exams will not be cumulative. As well, for those with special difficulties with multiple-choice questions, there will be an option of decreasing the weighting on exams, and handing in worksheets instead. For each exam period you will be given a choice of putting all 30% of the weighting on the exam, or putting 25% on the exam and 5% on the worksheets. If you choose the worksheet option, the worksheet mark will only be taken if your worksheet mark is higher than your exam. Consequently, it is a way of improving your mark if you did badly on an exam. However, many students find that it helps them do better on the exam if they do the worksheets BEFORE the exam occurs because the questions are study questions.

3. Deadlines: If you choose to hand in worksheets, there will be a 10% penalty for each day late. This penalty will be strictly enforced because if you take too long to do the worksheet it will interfere with your ability to study for the next exam.

4. Missed exams: The only valid excuses for missing an exam are medical/personal reasons verified by a third party (e.g. a doctor, a BA counselor, etc.). If you miss an exam and do not provide this verification within 7 days, you will receive a grade of 0 on that exam. If you provide written verification within this period a make-up exam will be scheduled for you when you return.

5. Academic Misconduct: Plagiarism and Cheating. Students are required to do their own writing for the worksheets and exams. If two students hand in exactly the same writing for a question, or if students simply plagiarize from the text (taking definitions or examples from the text, word for word), they will receive 0 on that part of the question (the offending section will be removed, and only the remaining part of the question will be marked). Consequently, put it in your own words! The worksheets are partly designed to prepare you for exams. If you simply copy from some other source (another person or a book), you will not truly understand the material and will do poorly on the essay exam questions as a result. If an individual repeatedly cheats or plagiarizes, their behavior will be reported as specified in the Academic Misconduct section of your course calendar.

One extreme: Maximal weighting on exams. Course Evaluation: Exam 1 30% Exam 2 30% Final Exam 40%

Opposite extreme: Maximal amount that can be placed on worksheets Course Evaluation: Exam 1 25% Exam 2 25% Worksheets (3 assignments 15% worth 5% each) Final Exam 35%

Note: You can also choose to re-weight it so that you do only one worksheet (and reduce the weighting of the corresponding exam) or do only two worksheets (and reduce the weightings for the two corresponding exams).

Schedule	Topic	Reading(s)
Sept 11, 13	Introduction to Perception	Chapter 1
Sept	Introduction to the physiology of perception	Chapter 2
Sept , <\b>	Neurons and Perception Exam 1: Sept <\b>	Chapter 3 to pg 49
Oct	Neurons and Perception The Organized Brain	Chapter 3 to end Chapter 4
Oct , <\b>	Perceiving Colour	Chapter 7
Oct	Perceiving Depth and Size	Chapter 8
Oct , <\b>	Perceiving Objects Exam 2: Oct <\b>	Chapter 5
Oct , Nov	Perceiving Movement	Chapter 9
Nov , <\b>	Visual Attention	Chapter 6
Nov	Sound, the Auditory System And Pitch Perception	Chapter 11
Nov	Sound localization	Chapter 12 to pg 274
Nov <\b>,	The Chamical Sensors OR <\u> the Cutaneous Senses Worksheet 3: Nov <\b>	Chapter 15 OR <\b> Chapter 14 based on class choice)

Component	Percentage	Schedule
Component	Percentage	Schedule
SEE ABOVE <\b>
Total	100%

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The final binding course outline will be distributed during the first class of the semester.

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Statement Of Student Responsibilities
Students in all Psychology courses are required to read and adhere to the statements listed via the above link or via the
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES link on the Department of Psychology home page.

Questions regarding those responsibilities should be directed to the course instructor.