January 5, 2023

Thursday January 5, 2023

Circle: Something you really like the feel of?

Homework: Please SQ3R Module 25 for Monday

Test next Thursday. We will be testing on the whole unit on January 12th so please take time to review.

Practice Test-Answer sheet

Activities: Study Strategies-Make a list of all the things you have available to you to study with.  Which one will you prioritize.  

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

Taste

Activity: Taste-do you have the genes

Kahoot

Module 24 Learning Targets:

• I can describe the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound.
• I can explain how the ear transforms sound energy into neural messages.
• I can explain how we detect loudness, discriminate pitch, and locate sounds.

Module 24 Slide Show 

Look at AP Classroom

Module 23 Learning Targets:

• Describe Gestalt psychologist understanding of perceptual organization, and explain how figure-ground and how grouping principles contribute to our perceptions.
• Explain how we use binocular and monocular cues to perceive the world in three dimensions, and discuss how we perceive motion.
• Explain how perceptual constancies help us construct meaningful  perceptions.
• Describe what research on restored vision, sensory restriction, and perceptual adaptation reveals about experiences of perception.

Activities:

True-False

Gestalt Image  More Images

Phi Phenomenon 

Visual Cliff

Autostereograms Another one

Depth Perception with Candy

Consistancy p.239

Michael Bach Page

Module 23: Slide Show 

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

Slide Show Module 22

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

Slide Show Module 21

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

Module 20 Slide Show