Tom Stafford

Association for the Teaching of Psychology

Lincoln, 11th of July 2008

‘Things can be known’ : Teaching psychology through demonstrations

Motion is a primitive

go waterfall video!

•An aftereffect = adaptation•continous input is uninformative,

•our brain is interested in variation•Motion registered directly,

•not computed from location and time

•Interocular transfer effect,•proves it’s happening cortically

• storage•proves it is designed in (cf fatigue)

Wendy Stafford. Sheringham steam train. 2006

Osterberg, 1935

Stafford, T. (2008), A fire to be lighted: a case-study in enquiry-based learning, Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2008, pp.20-42.

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Aleksandr Rodchenko. At the Telephone. 1928.

Perception is a problem

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shape from shading

What happens if you stand on your head and look at this?

number of distractors

time

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number of distractors

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http://psy.ucsd.edu/~sanstis/SASlides.html

The ‘mere exposure’ effect

Zajonc, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Journal of Personalityand Social Psychology, 9 , 1-27.Kunst-Wilson, W. R., & Zajonc, R. B. (1980). Affective discrimination of stimulithat cannot be recognized. Science, 207 , 557-558.

Osterberg, 1935

Detail from René Descartes i samtal med Sveriges drottning, Kristina, Pierre Louis Dumesnil (1698-1781).

Thank you!

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