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Perceptual Distortion VCE Psychology

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Program Details

  • VCE
  • 28 Students
  • 2 Hours
  • Onsite 
  • Online N/A

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Curriculum Focus

  • Unit 2 (AoS2): What influences a persons perception of the world?
  • Unit 2 (AoS3): How do scientific investigations develop understanding of influences on perception and behaviour?

Technical and Personal Skills

Scientific inquiry, design, software systems, collaboration, communication, critical & creative thinking

 

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Can you trust your senses? Can your perception of reality be altered? In this program we look at how your nervous system can be affected by perception and how sensory information can be distorted.

The first activity of this program exposes students to different environmental experiences, moving from calming meditation to an exhilarating virtual reality rollercoaster. Students are able to apply their understanding of research methods in an interactive way while generating primary investigation data (heart rate) for analysis. 

In the second activity students will explore sensory perception systems and participate in hands on tasks that can demonstrate distortion of those systems, particularly taste.

Students will

  • Examine the influence of biological, psychological & social factors on visual perception & gustatory perception
  • Discover the fallibility of perception through sensory exposure
  • Identify experimental variables & how they are measured
  • Systematically generate, collect, record and summarise primary qualitative and quantitative data
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Requisite Learning:

Some knowledge and pre-learning is required to understand this program content. Related pre and post visit activities can be accessed through our webportal.


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