Atypical Behaviour again; IRP

Well done on all today's presentations - there really has been some excellent work done on these topics - good research, and good quality of presentation too.

I will keep the posters to display in the future, but it occurred to me that the PPTs don't benefit from this. For this reason I intend to gather together as many as possible, and put them into a shared network folder for other students to view at their leisure.

I mentioned in the previous post that some aspect of the Atypical Behaviour topics could give rise to an IRP topic. Another possibility to bear in mind for the IRP could be doing something more experimental, along the lines of some of the memory experiments we have done so far, followed by a write-up.

Atypical Behaviour

Well done on all the good work so far on your 'Atypical Behaviour' projects. I hope these will be more or less complete by Friday/Monday, and we will soon schedule in time for presentations, perhaps at the end of next week.

As I said before, it would be great if you could take your research further - many of the topics would make excellent starting points for the IRP.

Another illusion

Here's another one - shows it works in colour too! The 'yellow' square in the middle of the front face and the 'brown' one in the middle of the top face are the same colour. They are. They really are.

In some ways, examples of how our visual perception can be mislead are simple enough to get your head around. Perhaps it makes you wonder, though, how much of your other perceptions are distorted. Can you think of an argument, for example, when you and another were both convinced that you were right about something, even though you disagreed?

Illusions

Hi,

Talking about illusions in class today - this is one of my favourite ones, and I think it works better on the screen than on paper:

Yes - believe it or not, squares 'A' and 'B' are exactly the same shade of grey.

Illusions like this help us to understand a key idea of the 'cognitive perspective' - the world that we percieve is to a large extent constructed by our mental processes. How we respond to objects and events can depend on our expectations and thought processes.

In this example, we expect square 'A' to be black and square 'B' to be white - so that is what we see!

Welcome!

To all my new students this year, welcome to the course! Good luck with Higher Psychology, I hope you enjoy it, and end up with a good result.