Tuesday December 9, 2025

Tuesday December 9, 2025

Circle: How do you parents describe you as a toddler?  Were you easy or difficult?

Homework: 222-230

Vocabulary: Cards are due on Tuesday next week.  You must have an understandable definition, and where applicable make a connection to yourself.

Correct Absolute Threshold

How picky of an eater are you lab?

Touch-

Test on Friday- Sensation

Thursday(GREEN) Friday(GOLD) December 4+5, 2025

Circle: Are you a picky eater?  How do you think your parents would describe you when you were little?  Easy or difficult?

Introduce Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Homework Due Next Class: SQ3R 222-230

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday.  You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you.  This is your self reference.  You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Study Guide for Sensation and Perception

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?

Discuss how selective attention directs our attention.

Describe the three steps that are basic to all our sensory system.

What are the difference between absolute and difference thresholds.

Understand how we are affected by subliminal stimuli

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment

(Because we only have Selective Attention the result is Inattentional Blindness.) Why?

WHO ARE YOU?

Video  Opponent Process
Video
Video Selective Attention
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Video Blind Spot
Video
Video High Frequency Test

Video Mosquito Test
Video 6 minute mark

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Vocabulary:

sensation

sensory receptors

perception

bottom-up processing

top-down processing

selective attention

inattentional blindness

change blindness

*Transduction

psychophysics

absolute threshold

signal detection theory

subliminal

difference threshold

priming

Weber's law

sensory adaptation

Monday(GREEN) Tuesday(GOLD) December 1+2, 2025

Monday(GREEN) Tuesday(GOLD) December 1+2, 2025

Circle: Did you notice anything different about the rest of you day on Monday after guided hypnosis?  Do you believe that some people have ESP?

Introduce Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Homework Due Next Class: SQ3R 204-213

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday.  You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you.  This is your self reference.  You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?

Discuss how selective attention directs our attention.

Describe the three steps that are basic to all our sensory system.

What are the difference between absolute and difference thresholds.

Understand how we are affected by subliminal stimuli

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment

(Because we only have Selective Attention the result is Inattentional Blindness.) Why?

Vocabulary:

sensation

sensory receptors

perception

bottom-up processing

top-down processing

selective attention

inattentional blindness

change blindness

*Transduction

psychophysics

absolute threshold

signal detection theory

subliminal

difference threshold

priming

Weber's law

sensory adaptation

Thursday November 20, 2025(GREEN) and Friday November 21(GOLD) 2025

 Thursday November 20, 2025(GREEN) and Friday November 21(GOLD) 2025

Circle: What is the GROSSEST item you have seen served at Thanksgiving?

Homework: Study for quiz over Sleep, Drugs and Hypnosis

Activity: T or F Drugs

Activity: T or F Hypnosis

Practice Quiz:

1. Take

2. Compare

3. Reflect

Hypnosis

Tuesday November 18, (GOLD) 2025 and Wednesday November 19, (GREEN) 2025

 Tuesday November 18, (GOLD)  2025 and Wednesday November 19, (GREEN) 2025

Homework SQ3R 180-190 for next class

Circle: Favorite food item for Thanksgiving?

Presentations: You will have 15 minutes to put together your presentation about what happens if you are running a chronic sleep deficit?  Your presentation should include:

Biological

1.  What is the impairment?

2. What is role of the sleep stages?

3. What is occuring in the brain structures?

4. What are the physical effects?

Cognitive:

1. What happens to attention, memory and decision making?

2. What is the potential academic  impact of a sleep deficit

Psychological/Social

1. Mood, behavior and risk-taking

2. What are the social consequences if running a sleep deficit?

Next Topic: Drugs...

Are you addicted?

Here are the learning targets for the next Quiz 

Monday November 17, (GREEN) 2025

Monday November 17, (GREEN) 2025

Circle: Your favorite Thanksgiving food item, could be a desert too!

Activity: Quantify your sleep.

Activity: How lack of sleep can change can affect you.

Sleep Test on Monday

Circle: What was your most effective study strategy?

This is college practice.  5-6 thousand dollars a class.  You don't get refunds.

When you take college classes, you'll take some hard ones.  You need to have strategies!!!

TEST

Second Circle: How many hours on average do you sleep a night?  Do you feel like its enough?  What gets in the way?