December 18, 2023

Monday December 18, 2023

Due to unforeseen circumstances we will move the Sensation and Perception Test to Thursday January 4th.

Circle: Either a food you parents tried to get you to eat when you were little that you fought them on and would not eat or  a food who use to "dislike" that you know eat and enjoy?

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: 222-230

Homework for Wednesday:233-242

Homework for Today 244-249

Homework for Monday 251-261-pain, taste, smell, body position, and sensory interaction.

Test Wednesday January 3rd. 

Module 25

For Monday: Taste

Activity: Synthesize the following:  Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

Grid for group synthesis.

December 14, 2023

Thursday December 14, 2023

Circle: If you had to describe yourself using one of the five basic tastes our tongue senses, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami or savory, which one best describes you and why?

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

Practice Test: Line up by how much homework you have completed.  Pick quiz teams.  Introduce yourself and explain why you are so good at getting things like homework done and why not.  Work together using your homework with you team to do the best you can on the practice test.  Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Homework Due: 222-230

Homework for Wednesday:233-242

Homework for Today 244-249

Homework for Monday 251-261

Test Wednesday January 3rd. 

For Monday: Taste

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?
Answer the following questions in your group. Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) Common smells you cannot stand?
2) A type or style of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland? Ex. If had to choose between chips and a cupcake, which would you choose a majority of the time.

December 13, 2023

Wednesday December 13, 2023

Circle: What was your favorite thing to do on the playground in elementary school? A rule from elementary school that you thought was silly or ridiculous?

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: 222-230

Homework for Wednesday:233-242

Homework for Thursday 244-249

Homework for Monday 251-261

Activity: Depth Perception

Activity: The Brain Episode 1

Study Guide Questions

December 11, 2023

Monday December 11, 2023

Circle: Would you rather talk like Yoda or breath like Darth Vader and why?

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: 222-230

Homework for Wednesday:233-242

Homework for Thursday 244-249

Homework for Monday 251-261

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?

How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

What is the energy that we see as visual light?

Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception

Nova Clip: David Eagleman and Synesthesia

Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

Our Taste
Optical Illusions
Pheromones
Man on a horse picture from text
Color Blindness Test

Change Blindness

Activity: Understanding the Eye.  From you mnemonic device draw a simple picture of the eye and how light travels through it.

Activity: As a class, you will be watching series of brief videos relating to Sensation and Perception. Your job will be as a small group to connect what you have watched to what we are studying. You will have one person who is leading the discussion, i.e. restating the question and keep the group focused, another will be the reporter who will explain to the class what specifically this connects to and how it connects once everyone in your group understands. You will be taking notes that you can add to your unit 4 notes. Please bring your book to class!

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Snickers Candy Throwing/Depth Perception

December 7, 2023

Thursday December 7, 2023

Return Tests

Homework Due Today: 215-220

Homework for Monday 222-231

Circle: Do you think ESP is real?  Can people really talk to dead people, or see the future or move things with their mind?  

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

Module 21 Learning Targets:

-Analyze the ways in which our expectations, contexts, motivation, and emotions influence our perceptions.  Examples 1 and 2

Activity: Stroop Effect

-Describe the claims of ESP, and discuss what most research psychologists have concluded after putting these claims to the test.

Activity: ESP

Module 21 Slide Show

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