This class addresses the various ways in which people's perceptions, memories, and reasoning about the world may diverge dramatically from reality. The course will delineate a variety of such illusions and try to understand their underlying cognitive and neuropsychological causes. Class goals will be to understand their applications (for instance, to eyewitness accuracy) and to use them to help understand normal perception and cognition.

Social Scientific and Historical Perspectives
Prerequisites
PSYC 201 and one additional 200-400 level psychology course, or permission of instructor.
Course UID
004919.1
Course Subject
Catalog Number
372
Long title
Illusions