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Factors affecting perception content Learning objectives Suggested hours Learning activities and resources Bruner and Minturn’s of perceptual set. Perceptual set and the effects of expectation on perception. Understand and be able to evaluate Bruner and Minturn’s study of perceptual set. Understand the concept of perceptual set and how expectation affects perception. Understand key concepts from research methods topic. 1–2 Replicate Bruner and Minturn’s perceptual set study. Mind map/list evaluation of Bruner and Minturn’s study in pairs. Use Bruner and Minturn’s study to reinforce learning of key terms and research methods concepts such as hypothesis, IVs and DV and experimental designs. Use class results from replicated study to reinforce learning of data handling concepts such as graphs, mean, median, mode and range eg collect together class results and display so that students can individually draw a graph of the results. In pairs, students design an experiment to test perceptual set and the effects of expectation on perception. Homework: students could go on to carry out their experiments. This could either be one shorter piece of homework, or a longer piece of homework in which they work on all the elements of designing an experiment. The effects of culture, Understand and be able to evaluate 2 Introduce and explain Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study of motivation.
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