Unit 9- Sensation & Perception

Daily Agenda

 Crooks AP Psychology

Unit 4 : Sensation & Perception

6 - 8 % of the AP Exam

Myers Textbook Chapters/Pages:

Modules 11, 12, 13 & 14 (Sensation) 15 & 16 (Perception)

Unit Goals: Check the box when you have mastered the goal. This will help you when you study for the unit assessment, AP exam, and complete the left hand side letter to yourself.                                             

• Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation .                                                                                                                                                                

• Describe sensory processes ( hearing, vision, touch, taste, smell, vestibular, kinesthesis, pain), including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses .                                                                                                                                                                                

• Explain common sensory disorders (visual and hearing impairments) .

• Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote stable awareness of the external world (Gestalt principles, depth perception) .

• Discuss how experience and culture can influence perceptual processes (perceptual set, context effects) .

• Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion .

• Discuss the role of attention in behavior .

• Challenge common beliefs in parapsychological phenomena .

• Identify the major historical figures in sensation and perception (Gustav Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst Weber, Torsten Wiesel) .

Unit Overview:                                                                                                                                             

Everything that organisms know about the world is first encountered when stimuli in the environment activate sensory organs, initiating awareness of the external world. Perception involves the interpretation of the sensory inputs as a cognitive process.

Unit 4 Vocabulary:

1. Sensation

2. Perception

3. bottom -up processing

4. Top down processing

5. Psychophysics

6. Absolute threshold

7. Signal detection theory

8. Subliminal

9. Difference threshold

10. Weber’s law

11. Sensory adaptation

12. Selective attention

13. Transduction

14. Wavelength

15. Hue

16. Intensity

17. Pupil

18. Iris

19. Lens

20. Accommodation

21. Retina

22. Acuity

23. Nearsightedness

24. Farsightedness

25. Rods

26. Cones

27. Optic nerve

28. Blind spot

29. fovea

30. Parallel processing

31. Young-helmholtz trichromatic (three color) theory

32. Opponent process theory

33. Color constancy

34. Audition

35. Frequency

36. Pitch

37. Middle ear

38. Inner ear

39. Cochlea

40. Place theory

41. Frequency theory

42. Conduction hearing loss

43. Sensorineural hearing loss

44. Gate control theory

45. Sensory interaction

46. Kinesthesis

47. Vestibular sense

48. Visual capture

49. Gestalt

50. Figure ground

51. Grouping

52. Depth perception

53. Visual cliff

54. Binocular cues

55. Monocular cues

56. Retinal disparity

57. Convergence

58. Phi phenomenon

59. Perceptual constancy

60. Perceptual adaptation

61. Perceptual set

62. Extrasensory perception ESP

63. parapsychology

People:

• David Hubel and Torsten Weisel

• Eleanor Gibson

• Gustav Fechner

• Ernst Weber

Studies:

• Gibson, E.J. The Visual Cliff

Unit 4 Resources: Sensation & Perception

Meyers Textbook         Interactive Notebook TOC               R.Hock 40 study book & Analysis Sheet           

                        Quizlet                            Unit 4 Vocabulary                Unit 4 Cornell HW Packet

UNIT 4 DATES:         

• TEST:

• CC’s:

• VOCAB DUE: 

• VOCAB QUIZ:

• CORNELL HW PACKET:

• NOTEBOOK:

Unit 4 Agenda

Day

Date

Topics Covered/Class Procedure

Homework

Help/Comments

1

Intro to Sensation & Thresholds

1. Go over Unit 3 Test & file

1. Write down all Unit 4 Dates

1. Topic: Signal Detection  & Thresholds (module 11)

1. Work on left hand side

1. Turn notebooks in!

1. Work on Unit 4 Cornell and Vocab

Weber's law & thresholds khan academy

JND in music test

Brain Games

Backmasking

Signal Detection Video

Ellen Change Blindness

2

Vision

1. Pick up Notebook!

1. Few notes from yesterday

1. Concept Check: Thresholds

1. Eye Diagram - color & label

1. Vision Notes  (Module 12)

1. Left hand side - your choice!

1. Work on Unit 4 Cornell and Vocab

Khan academy

Fun facts about the eye

Psychology of Color

Cartoon eye

3

Hearing

1. Review important dates this week.

1. Finish notes from Friday (Module 12)

1. Group CC - You guys have been asking for one!

1. Update TOC

1. Ear Diagram

1. Hearing  Hearing (Module 13)

1. Cornell notes and vocabulary

1. Notebook left hand sides

Sound illusion

Khan academy

4

The Other Senses

1. Pass back work

1. Pass out advantage time Sheets

1. Share out left hand side ideas

1. Go Over Ear Diagram

1. Hearing  Hearing (Module 13)

1. Notes - The other senses  The other senses -

Group activity

1. Watch the Video as a group.

2. Create 1 or 2 slides in your group ppt on your topic. 3rd period 

4th period

1. Present. 5 minutes per group. Everyone talks!

1. Finish Vocab! Due tomorrow

2. Continue working on cornell notes

Synesthesia

Proprioception and kinesthesia

Pain and temperature

Somatosensation

Olfaction

Gustation

Vestibular System

5

1. Presentations as a class - The other Senses . 3rd period 

4th period

1. Check Vocabulary

1. Look at Optical Illusions

1. Gestalt Grouping Principles Notes

1. STUDY quiz tomorrow!

2. Continue working on Cornell HW and Notebook lefts

Illusions

Gestalt Principles at work

Gestalt flip it

Woman who can’t recognize her face

No School - Hurricane

1. See unit dates above

6

Understanding Depth Perception

1. Go over New Unit Dates

1. Nic present (3rd Period)

1. Vocabulary Quiz

1. Finish Perception Notes

1. Hand back last unit FRQ

1. New Group FRQ

1. Assign/explain sensory fair

1. Watch Brain Games - Time Permitting

1. Continue working on Notebook lefts

7

1. Attendance

1. Explain The Great Sensory State Fair

1. As you move through the stations, fill out your review chart.

1. The left hand side is a your choice assignment

1. STUDY - Test tomorrow

Spinning

Floating arm

Taste & smell interaction

Changing tastes

Two point threshold

How does the Brain locate sound?

Practice multiple choice questions - sensation and perception are under two different tabs on this page

More MC practice

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1. Any Questions?

1. Turn in Notebook

1. Unit 4 Test

1. Pick up Unit 5 Cornell Notes

Click here to go to Unit 5: States of Consciousness organizer and agenda