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
Video
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?

Wednesday November 12, 2025

Wednesday(GOLD) November 12, 2025 and Thursday(GREEN) 13, 2025

New Seating Chart/Activity Each team has to find something unique about each person and something they all share in common as a group — these can be things about their personality, hobbies, fun facts, or anything else.

Circle: How good of a sleeper are you?  Go to bed quickly and awaken refreshed and ready to go? 2). Do you have or had a re-occuring dream, or what do you remember about your last dream?

Unit Topics: Consciousness, Sleep, Dreams, and Hypnosis

Homework Due for Wednesday or Thursday : SQ3R 157-165

Sleep Journal:  On average, how many hours of sleep have you been getting on a school night?  Research about if you can make up for lost sleep?

Activity: 20-8 How large is you sleep deficit?  What are strategies you can implement to improve you sleep.  Create a customized list of things that you know you need to work on or strategies you currently use that work and are backed up by science.

Activity: At you table you will come up with a brief presentation about the long term effects of not getting enough sleep.  What topic sounds the most interesting? If you have three people, your presentation will have 3 parts.  If four people, it would have 4 parts.

For Example: Lack of sleep can lead to weight gain because; 1. Increases ghrelin, a hunger-arousing hormone and decreases leptin which decreases hunger.  2. Decreases metabolic (energy use) rate.  3. Increases cortisol production,  a stress hormone that stimulates the body to make fat(energy storage). 4. Enhances limbic brain response to the mere sight of food and reduces cortical response which helps us resist temptation.

Activity: 20-13 How good are your sleep strategies?

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych exam.    Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• consciousness
• circadian rhythm
• REM sleep
• hallucinations
• insomnia
• narcolepsy
• sleep apnea
• night terrors
• sleepwalking
• manifest content
• latent content
• hypnosis
• dissociation

Sleep

Stages of Sleep - Sleep Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjPZNNSGlY

Stages of Sleep, REM Sleep and Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoMD1XI5u8

What Makes You Tick: Circadian Rhythms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BoLqqNuqwA

Circadian Rhythm and Your Brains Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ0RxQu2gM

Sleep loss and disorders

What It’s Like To Have Insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkKcqdrfGo

Sleep Apnea Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUjQ-IcKPU

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXEgVK-fF4

What is Narcolepsy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Ucpf_OYvs4E

Nightmares and Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH4xmN8

Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=R1srWn4QWoU

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY

Sleepwalking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_JLTmIFq_A

Dreams
Crash Course Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHus-0wFSo
Hypnosis Discovering Psychology: The Mind Hidden and Divided (11:30 mark)