Business and technology qualifications, Levels 3-6, in Brussels. Explore qualifications
Portal login
Level 5 Diploma in Psychology

Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criteria, one-to-one tutorials, formative feedback on drafts

PSY503 · Visual Perception — Week 12 of 16

CoursePSY503
Week12 of 16
SemesterI
TutorOnline in the course chat

This week’s topics

Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criteria, one-to-one tutorials, formative feedback on drafts

  1. Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criteria, one-to-one tutorials, formative feedback on drafts

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Explain the role of visual perceptual development in the debate of nature v nurture.
  • 4.2 Analyse the nature v nurture debate as it relates to visual perceptual development.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the role of visual perceptual development in the debate of nature v nurture.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
Week 11Week 13
Course chat

Admitted students ask questions on this week’s page in the student portal: an AI assistant trained on the course answers first, and during the course’s timetabled classes Connect to your tutor brings your tutor into the chat, who may start a call if needed.

Open this week in the portal
Course plan
  • Week 1: Structure and function of the visual system: the eye, retin…
  • Week 2: Blindness and damage to the eye and visual cortex
  • Week 3: Visual information processing: sensory adaptation, contrast…
  • Week 4: Constructivist theories: Gregory (1972) and the Gestalt app…
  • Week 5: Direct and computational theories: Gibson (1979) and Marr (…
  • Week 6: Development of depth perception: Gibson and Walk (1960), Tu…
  • Week 7: Development of visual constancies: Bower (1966)
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Differentiation theory (Gibson and Gibson 1955) and enrichm…
  • Week 10: Evidence for nurture (restricted experience, perceptual dep…
  • Week 11: Synthesising the nature v nurture debate in visual percepti…
  • Week 12: Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criter…
  • Week 13: Supervised completion and submission
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
Back to the course
Scroll