Unit 2 -Perception & Sensation

2.2 -Vision

UNIT OVERVIEW

Psychology 12 - Unit 8 Motivation & Emotion

Chapter Videos

Crash Course Episode 5 - Sensation and Perception

Crash Course Episode 6 - Homunculus

Crash Course Episode #7 - Perceiving Is Believing

Chapter Articles

Sacrificing sleep? Here's what it will do to your health (CNN)

People who Need Very Little Sleep (BBC)

The Science of Getting Drunk (Infographic)

Sleep is One Thing Missing in Busy Teenage Lives

Video Reviews - watch the videos below on the unit content content and complete the questions listed on the Google Form

Attention

Attention.mp4

Hearing

Hearing.mp4

Vision

Vision.mp4

Module 16

Selective Attention

• What are the implications of having the ability to attend selectively to stimuli?

Transduction

• What are the implications of sensory information not getting transformed and delivered to the brain properly?

Threshold

• Why are thresholds important to our ability to interact with the world around us?

Sensory Adaptation

• How does sensory adaptation help people live day-to-day?

Module 17

Perceptual Set

• What are some benefits and drawbacks of perceptual set?

Context Effects

• How influential is context on our sensation and perception?

Emotion and Motivation

• What are the implications of emotions


Module 18

The Stimulus Input: Light Energy

• How is light important to vision?

• What are the most important aspects of light that make vision possible?

The Eye

• What are the most important aspects of the eye that make vision possible?

Visual Information Processing

• How do feature detectors and parallel processing affect our visual perception?

Color Vision

• How do we see colour?


Module 19

Visual Organization

• Why do we organize visual information in particular ways?

• How does this type of organization help us understand the world around us?

Visual Interpretation

• How does losing or regaining vision affect perception?

• How does perceptual adaptation help us day-to-day?


Module 20

The Stimulus Input: Sound Waves

• How are sound waves important to hearing?

• What are the most important aspects of sound waves that make hearing possible?

The Ear

• What aspects of the ear make hearing possible?


Module 21

Touch

• Is touch a sensory system that is taken for granted?

Pain

• What is the importance of pain in our lives?

Taste

• How does our sense of taste affect other aspects of our lives?

Smell

• What is the importance of smell in daily life?

Body Position and Movement

• How can knowing about our body position and movement be important?

Sensory Interaction

• Why is sensory interaction important?