Circle: A taste/flavor that you find disgusting?
Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Homework Assignment Sheet
Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.
Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?
How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?
Activity:
How do we make sense of this? 6min mark.
How good are you at Counting Basketballs?
What do you notice?
Can you see the difference?
What is the takeaway?
Just follow along
1. What is this a demonstration of?
2. Definition
3. In your own words. Personal connection.
Selective Attention Prezi
Synthesize the following: Why doesn't our brain try to make sense of everything that is happening around us?
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk
Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception
David Eagleman Ted Talk
The Invisible Gorilla Experiment
Synthesize the following: What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?
Test Strips: Do you have the gene?
Sodium Benzoate has different taste perceptions than the other papers. A different pair of alleles determines the ability to taste Sodium Benzoate. It can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter or tasteless, so this paper is often used in conjunction with another taste test, such as PTC, to characterize taste perception, and break tasters/non-taters into subgroups.
The point is, PTC in genetics has been studied for quite some time, and there is quite a bit of information on it. There are several known alleles for the PTC gene, but PTC sensitivity is really controlled by two major alleles in humans. PTC paper either tastes bitter or it doesn’t taste like anything at all. Some tasters can taste a very strong bitter taste, while other tasters can taste a mildly bitter taste. Thus, there can be three classifications of phenotypes in a PTC study (strong tasters, mild tasters, and no taste).
Our Taste
Optical Illusions
Pheromones
Man on a horse picture from text
Color Blindness Test
Have you ever been under anesthesia?
Eye-witness Accounts
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