Toohey's AP Psychology Class: December 2025

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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

Friday, December 5, 2025

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