PSY6165 - Illusions, Biases and Cognitive Impairments

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module will use examples of sensory illusions, cognitive biases and disorders as a path to exploring important cognitive mechanisms and their neurological basis. Sensory illusions (e.g. Kanizsa figures, Rubber hand illusion) will be used to illustrate the perceptual system, processing disorders (e.g. prosopagnosia, object agnosia) will help students understand how sensory information is integrated, and cognitive biases (e.g. confirmation bias, priming bias) will showcase the systems underlying human thinking.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 25
Intended Group Size: 80

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment
Learning outcomes will be assessed via a 2,500-word essay. Students will be able to choose from a range of topics, all relating to how one specific bias/disorder can inform our understanding of cognitive mechanisms OR how one specific cognitive mechanism can be explored through the lens of illusions and disorders.

Assessment:

001 Essay; 2,500 words; end of semester 1 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Tim Vestner
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S1

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