ECTS - Escola Superior de Educação
Degree: Visual Arts And Artistic Technologies
Course: Gestalt and Visual Perception Psychology
Academic Year: 2014/2015
Academic year: 2
Semester: Summer Semester
Attendance regime: Mandatory
Number of Credits (ECTS): 2.0
Theoretical and Practical Contact Hours:
30.0 h
Course Responsible Teacher: Doutora Carla Peixoto
Skills:
- Understand the main theoretical approaches and the most significant concepts in the field of Psychology of Perception.
- Understand the mechanisms and processes of visual perception.
- Understand the factors that influence visual perception.
- Understand the relationship between perception and other psychological processes and how they develop.
- Understand the Gestalt psychology and its major contributions to the understanding of visual perception.
- Mobilize the knowledge acquired in the Psychology of Perception to the context of the visual arts and artistic technologies.
- Address the psychological knowledge through the use of reflective, critical and investigative attitudes.
Contents:
1. Introduction to Psychology of Visual Perception.
1.1 The Psychology of Perception in the context of the scientific psychology.
1.2 Perception and sensation.
1.3 Neuropsychophysiology of perception.
2. Psychological development and visual perception.
2.1 The concept of human development and the theories of psychological development.
2.2 Intellectual development and sensory and cognitive processes.
3. Gestalt Psychology.
3.1 Nature and main principles.
3.2 Perception structure principles.
3.3 Perception, subjective contours and visual illusions.
3.4 The Gestalt Psychology and the visual arts.
4. Perceptual constancy and perceptual content.
4.1 Shape, size and color constancies.
4.2 Shape, depth, motion and color perception.
4.3 Disorders of perception.
5. Perception and other psychological processes: attention, motivation, and expectations.
Skills:
The lecture method, using audiovisual materials, is used to expose some of the contents. It is also used more student-centered
methods, particularly the literature search and the participation of students in class through the presentation and discussion of
themes, texts and/or films, previously prepared.
Assessment:
Students¿ progress grading is based on the following: a written test (WT), the participation of students in class (P), and oral and
written assignments in small group (OWA). Regarding the access to the final exam, the institutional student evaluation policy is
applied. Final exam focuses on all the contents covered in the course.
References:
Coll, C., Marchesi, A., & Palacios, J. (Orgs.) (2004). Desenvolvimento psicológico e educação 1. Psicologia evolutiva (tradução de
D. V. Moraes, 2ª ed.). Porto Alegre: Artmed.
Goldstein, E. B. (Ed.) (2001). Blackwell handbook of sensation and perception. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Levitin, D. J. (2002). Foundations of cognitive psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pessanha, M., Barros, S., Sampaio, R., Serrão, C., Veiga, S., & Araújo, S. C. (2010). Psicologia da Educação. Luanda: Plural
Editores.
Notices:
E-mail: [email protected]
Co-author: Doutora Sílvia Barros; [email protected]
Students, who benefit from special status, may require other evaluation procedures (individual assignments). The written test is
mandatory for all students. Regarding progress grading, classification on the written test must be equal or higher than seven (out of
20).
The b-learning platform (moodle) is used in addition to activities developed in classes.
Doutora Carla Peixoto
Porto, 1 de Outubro de 2014