December 19, 2022

Monday December 19, 2022

Homework Due Monday SQ3R 222-230

Circle: Did you believe I had super powers?  What was so convincing about my magic trick?  What do you understand about yourself in regard to ESP?

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

Activity: True-False

Module 22 Learning Targets:

• Discuss the characteristics of the energy that we see as visible light, and describe the structure in the eye that help focus that energy.
• Describe how the rods and cones process information, and explain the path information travels from the eye to the brain.
• Discuss how we perceive color in the world around us.
• Describe the location and function of feature detectors.
• Explain how the brain uses parallel processing to construct visual perceptions.

Vocabulary Module 22: All the words in pink in Module 22.

Video 
Video

Optical Illusions
Color Blindness Test

Activity: You will be creating a mnemonic device for the path light travels through the eye.  As a reward for the best device  the top three will get bonus points on next summative.  You cannot vote for yourself.

Module 21 Learning Targets:

• How do our  expectations, context, motivation, and emotions influence our perception.
• Be able to explain the claims of ESP, and discuss what most research psychologist have concluded after putting these claims to the test.

Vocabulary: Module 21

perceptual set

ESP

parapsychology

Module 20 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?

Vocabulary for Module 20

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