Information Package / Course Catalogue
Psychology of Perception
Course Code: PSİ308
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to enable the student to comprehend the basic concepts and methods of the psychology of perception, to learn the explanations of neurophysiological mechanisms related to sensation and perception processes and to apply the research methods used at a basic level.

Course Content

Sensation and perception, sensing, sensory organs, methods of researching sensation and perception processes, sight and perception, hearing sense and auditory perception, spatial orientation and balance system, chemical senses and perception, sense of touch

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Student can identify physiological mechanisms which underlie perception processess.
2.Student can evaluate visual illusions through depth and size perception.
3.Student can apply research methods which are used in sensation and perception processess.
4.Student knows processing of auditory, visual and tactual perception in brain.
5.Student know research methods which are used in sensation and perception processess.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Duyum ve Algı Psikolojisi, Sevda Bulduk, Nobel Tip Kitabevi, 2014
2.Bilişsel Psikoloji, Bruce Goldstein, (Çev. Okhan Gündüz), Kaknüs Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013
3.Karısını Şapka Sanan Adam, Oliver Sacks, (Çev. Çiğdem Çalkılıç), Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2014
4.Bilişsel Psikoloji, Robert L. Solso, Kimberly Maclin ve Otto H. Maclin (çev. Ayşe Ayçiçeği), Kitabevi Yayın, İstanbul, 2009.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Course Introduction
Week 2 - Theoretical
Sensation and Perception
Week 3 - Theoretical
Sense organs and the Brain
Week 4 - Theoretical
Psychophysics
Week 5 - Theoretical
Research methods in sensation and perception processes
Week 6 - Theoretical
Vision
Week 7 - Theoretical
Perceptual processes in vision
Week 8 - Theoretical
Audition and auditory perception
Week 9 - Theoretical
Spatial orientation and balance system
Week 10 - Theoretical
Sense of touch
Week 11 - Theoretical
Chemosenses and perception
Week 12 - Theoretical
Perception as information processing
Week 13 - Theoretical
Perceptual inference
Week 14 - Theoretical
Gestalt Psychology
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Assignment1%10
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Assignment125025
Midterm Examination120222
Final Examination120222
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
PÇ-13
PÇ-14
OÇ-1
3
4
4
3
OÇ-2
3
4
4
3
OÇ-3
4
3
3
3
OÇ-4
4
3
3
3
OÇ-5
3
4
4
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026