BCS 208: Laboratory in Perception and Cognition

Cross-listed: CVS/PSY 208
Prerequisites: BCS 200 and either BCS 151 or 153
Offered: Spring

About this course:

This course gives students first-hand experience observing perceptual and cognitive phenomena and shows how to answer scientific questions by making such observations. Specifically, students learn how to perform, analyze, interpret, and report experiments, by doing seven experiments in a sequence that gradually increases the independence of the student experimenters. An important byproduct of this learning is an enhanced capacity to interpret and evaluate the experiments one reads about. The experiments also teach practical laboratory skills, and the reports improve writing skills through practice and tutored revision.