Toohey's AP Psychology Class: December 2024

Circle: You aren't exactly adults but you are definitely not little kids. What is something you have come to realize or understand? #2 A smell that brings back a positive memory?

Summative Assessment- on December 19 over Sensation

Study Guide

Study Guide: Make sure you understand the following. We will do a full review on Wednesday!

Module 20: Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception

Module 21: Influences on Perception

Module 22: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Module 23: Visual Organization and Interpretation

Module 24: Hearing

Module 25: The Other Senses

Crash Course: Sensation and Perception and Study Guide

Crash Course: Homunculus and Study Guide

Activity: Do you have the gene?

Senses Skittles Experiment

Thursday, December 12, 2024

December 12, 2024

Thursday December 12, 2024

Circle: How old where you when the christmas season lost some of its magic?

Formative Assessment- Pick out three terms from 233-241 and your eye mnemonic.

Summative Assessment- on December 19 over Sensation

Study Guide: Make sure you understand the following. We will do a full review on Wednesday!

Module 22: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Module 23: Visual Organization and Interpretation

Activity: Depth Perception/Retinal Disparity/Googles

Senses Skittles Experiment

Monday, December 9, 2024

December 9, 2024

Monday December 9, 2024

Circle: If you had to give up one of your senses, besides sight, which one would you give up? Smell, taste, hearing, touch?

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

Vocabulary for Thursday: Wavelength to Audition

Quiz over vocabulary today.

Homework Due Today: SQ3R 222-230

Homework for Thursday:SQ3R 233-242

Homework for Monday SQ3R 244-249 and 251-261

The Eye

Mnemonic Device for the Eye. Lollipops will be awarded to the best mnemonic device!

Activity: Opponent Process Theory

Activity: Color Blindness

Activity: Blind Spot

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.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

December 4, 2024

Wednesday December 4, 2024

Homework for Monday: SQ3R 222-231

Homework due: SQ3R 215-220

Handout: The Anxious Generation

Circle: If the findings are true, what are the long term ramifications of people spending so much time online, even if you aren't?

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

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday. You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you. This is your self reference. You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Example: Front and Back

Working at your table with other students come up with an example of how it applies directly to you.

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?

Slide Show: Sensation

Vocabulary:

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

Slideshow

Monday, December 2, 2024

December 2, 2024

Monday December 2, 2024

Homework: SQ3R 215-220

New seating chart

Seating Chart Activity: First introduce yourself and the share what is an ASMR sound, visual or feeling that produces a response for you? Better yet share a video or sound from your phone if you can. Not everyone experiences ASMR so don't feel bad if you don't have one.

What is ASMR(autonomous sensory meridian response)?

Dream analysis

Circle: Did you notice anything different about the rest of you day on Monday after guided hypnosis? Do you believe that some people have ESP?

Introduce 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 Today: SQ3R 204-213

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?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment