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Semester 2

Active Vision (PSYL10183)

Subject

Psychology

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must be studying Psychology as their degree major, and have completed at least 3 Psychology courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

This course provides an overview of eye movements, attention and cognitive ethology. We will look at gaze behaviour in a variety of settings also look at expert-novice differences in gaze behaviour.

Course Description

This course provides an overview of eye movements, attention and cognitive ethology. We will look at gaze behaviour in a variety of settings such as static social scenes, evaluating chess positions, and real-world cooperative tasks. We will also look at expert-novice differences in gaze behaviour and the training of less skilled individuals to adopt a more expert like gaze behaviour. Students will become familiar with different types of eye movements and the relationship between eye movements and overt visual attention. They will be able to critically evaluate approaches to gaze-behaviour collection. Students will gain a depth of knowledge of gaze behaviour in the real-world and laboratory and be able to apply knowledge about eye movements. Students will gain experience presenting information in video presentations and writing a grant application.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Psychology exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year Psychology course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the January Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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