Sensation & Perception
We rely on our senses to understand the world around us. The way our brain processes sensory information allows us to interpret our environment.
Unit 4: Sensation & Perception
This unit will help students appreciate how sensation and perception interact to influence our thoughts and behaviors. The integrated processes of sensation and perception are the most basic ways we interact with the world.
Approximately 6-8% of the multiple-choice section of the AP Psychology Exam will be from this unit.
This unit will help students appreciate how sensation and perception interact to influence our thoughts and behaviors. The integrated processes of sensation and perception are the most basic ways we interact with the world.
Approximately 6-8% of the multiple-choice section of the AP Psychology Exam will be from this unit.
Supplemental Presentations
These supplemental presentations are provided by boundless.com are adapted for our lessons. Boundless has broken down parts of our units into smaller segments and integrate a multiple question quiz at the end. They may be a valuable resource though they only reinforce segments of our units.
These supplemental presentations are provided by boundless.com are adapted for our lessons. Boundless has broken down parts of our units into smaller segments and integrate a multiple question quiz at the end. They may be a valuable resource though they only reinforce segments of our units.
Resources
Module Reviews
Note Cards
Modules 16-17
Modules 16-17
1. sensation
2. perception 3. bottom-up processing 4. top-down processing 5. selective attention 6. inattentional blindness 7. schema |
8. change blindness
9. transduction 10. Psychophysics 11. absolute threshold 12. signal detection theory 13. subliminal 14. difference threshold |
15. Weber's Law
16. sensory adaption 17. perceptual set 18. schema* 19. Extrasensory Perception (ESP) 20. parapsychology |
Modules 18-19
1. wavelength
2. hue 3. intensity 4. pupil 5. iris 6. lens 7. retina 8. accomodation 9. rods 10. cones |
11. optic nerve
12. blind spot 13. fovea 14. feature detectors 15. supercell clusters* 16. parallel processing 17. Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory 18. opponent-process theory 19. Gestalt 20. figure-ground |
21. grouping
22. depth perception 23. visual cliff 24. binocular cues 25. retinal disparity 26. monocular cues 27. phi phenomenon 28. perceptual constancy 29. color constancy 30. perceptual adaptation |