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