AP PSYCHOLOGY 2014-15
Unit 4: Sensation &
Perception
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Tuesday 10/21
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DISCUSS SOCIAL SCIENCE FAIR
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Wednesday 10/22
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RTN: pages 147 - 152
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Thursday 10/23
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RTN:
pages 170 – 177
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Friday 10/24
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RTN:
pages 164 – 169
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Due Monday, 10/27
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RTN: pages 153 - 158
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Tuesday 10/28 –
Wednesday 10/29
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IN
COMPUTER LAB (FB 256)
SOCIAL
SCIENCE FAIR: GROUP & TOPIC
SELECTION DUE
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Thursday 10/30
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RTN: pages 158 - 163
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Friday 10/31
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SENSATION QUIZ (Sensation index cards due)
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Monday 11/3
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SOCIAL
SCIENCE FAIR: ARTICLE INTERPRETATION
SHEETS DUE
RTN: pages 180 - 186
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Tuesday 11/4
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RTN: pages 186 – 190
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Wednesday 11/5
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RTN: pages 190 – 194
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Thursday 11/6
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RTN: pages 183 – 184
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Wednesday 11/12
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UNIT TEST – Multiple Choice (Perception index cards due)
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Friday 11/14
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UNIT TEST – FRQ
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Tuesday 11/18 –
Wednesday 11/19
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IN
COMPUTER LAB (TBA)
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SUGGESTED NOTE-TAKING
TOPICS
Throughout
all readings, think about the relationship between SENSATION and
PERCEPTION. Everything that we know
about the world is first encountered when stimuli in our environment activate
sensory organs, initiating awareness of the external world. Perception involves the interpretation of that
sensory inputs as a cognitive process.
147 – 152
Basic principles of sensory transduction, including:
· absolute
threshold
· difference
threshold (incl. Weber’s Law)
· signal
detection
· sensory
adaptation
170 – 177
Sensory processes for the
following senses:
· touch
· pain
· taste
· smell
For each, include information
about:
· energy transduction
· anatomical structures
· related brain pathways
164 – 169
Sensory process for hearing,
including information about:
· energy transduction
· anatomical structures
· related brain pathways
· impairments
153 – 158
Sensory process for vision,
including information about:
· energy transduction
· anatomical structures
· related brain pathways
· impairments
158 – 163
Processing of visual
information, including:
· feature detection
· parallel proessing
Processing of color,
including:
· Young-Melmholtz trichromatic theory
· opponent-process theory
180 – 186
· How perception is affected by selective attention
· How illusions affect perception
· Principles of organizing sensation:
o Gestalt principles
o form perception (figure/ground & grouping)
186 – 190
More principles of organizing
sensation:
· Depth perception cues (monocular & binocular)
190 – 194
More principles of organizing
sensation:
· Motion perception
· Perceptual constancy
o shape/size
o size-distance
o lightness
194 – 198
How experience and culture influence
perception, including:
· perceptual adaptation
· perceptual set
· context effects
INDEX CARD TERMS:
Sensation
- Sensation
- Perception
- Bottom-up processing
- Top-down processing
- Psychophysics
- Absolute threshold
- Signal detection theory
- Subliminal
- Difference threshold
- Weber’s Law
- Sensory adaptation
- Transduction
- Wavelength
- Hue
- Intensity
- Pupil
- Iris
- Lens
- Accommodation
- Retina
- Acuity
- Nearsightedness
- Farsightedness
- Rods
- Cones
- Optic nerve
- Blind spot
- Fovea
- Feature detectors
- Parallel processing
- Color constancy
- Audition
- Frequency
- Pitch
- Middle ear
- Inner ear
- Cochlea
- Gate-control theory
Perception
- Selective attention
- Gestalt
- Figure-ground
- Grouping
- Depth perception
- Perceptual constancy
- Perceptual adaptation
- Perceptual se
