Sunday, August 3, 2008

Guidelines for Test Revision

With the class test having been scheduled for Monday 11 August, some of you may be beginning to turn your attention from completing your essays to preparing for the test. I have prepared some revision guidelines for the test, and I will distribute these on Wednesday in the lecture.

However, if you would like to get access to the guidelines sooner, I will put them up on the noticeboard outside my office on Tuesday before lunch. I can also send them via email if you send me a message requesting them.

I have tried to avoid any significant overlap between your coursework essay topics (colour and the 'grand illusion') and the revision/test topic areas. Given the relationships between different parts of this course, and the general themes of embodiment and enaction that develop throughout the course, you are encouraged to prepare well in all of the areas outlined below – i.e. avoid excessive ‘spotting’.

In brief, the revision topics fall into the following areas:

1. The notion of perception as perceptually guided action.
2. The notion of soft assembly.
3. Basic-level categories.
4. Spatial-relations concepts.

Since you will be provided with only three choices of topic in the test, you are strongly advised to prepare well in all of these areas so that you will have maximum choice in the test, and you will begin to lay a solid foundation for the final examination.

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