Psyc 310       Sensation and Perception     Fall 1999
Lecture: Tuesday 1 - 3, 205 Wolf; Lab sections Thursday 1 - 3 or Friday 1
- 3, 137 McKinly

John P. McLaughlin, 213 Wolf, x2752, johnmcl@udel.edu
Office hours: 1-2 W, 11-12 TR and by appointment.

As you know, this is a lecture/laboratory course. The lecture portion of
the course will cover a set of topics from the textbook; Goldstein,
E.B.,(1999)Sensation and Perception, 5th ed.,Pacific Grove, CA:
Brooks/Cole. You will be tested on this material by two exams, a midterm
and a final, which will contribute two-thirds of your total grade. 
The remaining third will come from lab reports you write, based on
various lab activities. You will be receiving a style manual on writing
them.

There will be a Web page for the course, with the URL
http://www.udel.edu/psych/johnmcl/sp.html  It is a work in progress, but I
hope it will be useful for exploring demonstrations and illustrations of 
perceptual effects and a source for information about the course and the
science. What follows is a tentative schedule of lecture topics, readings
and lab activities.

Date	Topic		Reading		Lab
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Aug 31	Introduction	Ch. 1		Introduction
Sep 7	Visual System	Ch. 2		Thresholds
14	  "     "	Ch. 3		   "
21	  "     "	Ch. 4		Poggendorf				           
28	Color		Ch. 5		    "        
Oct 5	Constancy	Ch. 6		Color           
12	Objects, Review	Ch. 7		  "            
19	Midterm		Ch. 1-7		Depth
26	Space		Ch. 8,9		  "           
Nov 2	Movement	Ch. 10		Phi             
9	Hearing		Ch. 11-12	"	            
16	  "		Ch. 13		Sound
23	Development	Ch. 16		  "
30	Aesthetics	TBA
Dec 7	Attention,Review TBA
??	Final