Tuesday, November 17
Assignment: CH3HW1 Read pp. 98-103 (quiz on Thursday)
1. How do we get information from our senses to our brains?
2. What are sensory receptors? What role do they play in an action potential?
3. How did Ernst Weber contribute to our understanding of sensation and perception?
4. Explain Weber's law aka Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
5. How did Fechner contribute to the study of sensation and perception?
6. Define the term absolute threshold.
7. How does absolute threshold differ from just noticeable difference?
8. What is a subliminal stimulus?
9. Why are people skeptical of the effects of subliminal messaging?
10. Define the word habituation
11 Define the word sensory adaptation
12. How do these two terms habituation and sensory adaptation differ?
Wednesday, November 18
AIM: How does perception takes place?
Assignment: CH3HW2 (Complete the ABC's of sensation on p. 103, 1-4)
WATCH MY PSYCH LAB: TAKING IN THE WORLD AROUND US
QUIZ TOMORROW ON THE FOLLOWING TERMS
SENSATION
PERCEPTION
TRANSDUCTION
SENSORY RECEPTORS
WEBER'S LAW
JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE
NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE
FECHNER'S LAW - ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD
HABITUATION
SENSORY ADAPTATION
SUBLIMINAL
LIMIN
SYNESTHESIA
Thursday, November 19
AIM: How does the process of vision begin?
1. Draw by hand a large picture of the outside of the eye (as if you were looking at your eye in a mirror and label its parts. Include the iris, sclera, cornea, aqueous humor
2. Draw by hand a picture of the inside of the eye starting with the iris, lens, vitreous humor, fovea and the optic nerve
3. Draw by hand the back of the eye showing the fovea macula and rods and cones
4.PRACTICE
5. Complete worksheet
Monday, November 30 (ALL REMOTE DAY)
AIM: How does transduction of light become vision?
CH3HW4: Complete Assignment on Google Classroom
https://classroom.google.com/c/MTU5NDM3MDk4MDc1/a/MjEwNDIyMDQ4NTg2/details
Tuesday, December 1
AIM: How does the eyes anatomy facilitate transduction?
CH3HW5:Complete Assignment on Google Classroom
Read pp. 104- 108
What are the three key properties of light?
Explain how each property impacts on what we see?
Define the following terms:
Refraction
Cornea
Ophthalmologist
LASIKS
Aqueous Humor
Pupil
Lens
Visual Accommodation
Presbyopia
Myopia
Hyperopia
Vitreous Humor
Rods
Cones
Blind Spot
4. What is the left and right visual field? Explain
5. What is the difference between the temporal retinal and the nasal retina?
6. How long does dark adaptation take from constant light to darkness? What is color adaptation?
7. What is night blindness?
Wednesday, December 2
AIM: UNDERSTANDING VISION
CH3HW6:Complete Assignment on Google Classroom
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qtw9_XDtFBDakckD8bVfYE86Wl1uU2SMaepOlO6wFdI/edit?usp=sharing
Thursday, December 3
AIM: How does the two stage theory explain how we see color?
CH3HW7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KVFY2LxEMb7OcMKkux1qNfaIb2SM0HvwRG6yTs26cSM/edit?usp=sharing
Explain the trichromatic theory in terms of the cones
What is an afterimage?
Look at the flag on p. 109 for one minute now look at a blank piece of paper- Describe what you see.
What are the four primary colors in opponent processing theory?
How does opponent processing work in terms of action potentials?
What is the role of the LGN aka lateral geniculate nucleus within the thalamus?
Why is color blindness a term that should be abandoned?
Identify the three types of color deficits?
Why are males more susceptible to color deficits than females?
Monday, December 7
FRQ Assignment
Wednesday, December 9
CH3HW11: Complete Assignment
Friday, December 11
CH3 HW 14: Read pp. 123-124
Where are the special receptors called that transduce the physical sensations to our perception of movement and understanding pf the location of our body?
Where does transduction take place for the vestibular sense?
Why is sensory conflict theory used to explain motion sickness?
What is space motion sickness?
Define the following terms:
Kinesthesia
Vestibular
Semicircular Canals
Proprioception
DECEMBER 27
ASSIGNMENTS ON MY AP CLASSROOM DUE JANUARY 4
Practice AP Quiz - you must use the lockdown browser - which requires you to download the browser first
As we begin Chapter 6, students will be required to take the exam using the lockdown browser. No student will be able to take the test without downloading the software.
Assignment: CH3 PRACTICE QUIZ
Available as of: 12/27/2020 4:23 PM EST
Due: 1/4/2021 10:00 PM EST
Link for students to take test: https://apclassroom.collegeboard.org/30/assessments/assignments/32176779
Wednesday, January 6
AIM: What is Gestalt?
CH3HW15 - Read pp. 126- 128
1. Why are we lucky that we do not pay attention to all the stimuli in our environment?
2. When is it easy to stay focused or pay attention to something? When do you notice it difficult to stay focused on one stimuli?
3. How does the cocktail party effect work?
4. Explain the different types of perceptual constancies.
size
shape
brightness
5. What is the core principle of Gestalt?
6.Explain each of the Gestalt principles:
Figure- Ground
Proximity
Similarity
Closure
Continuity
Contiguity
Thursday, January 7
AIM: How does perception impact what we physically experience?
CH3HW16: read pp. 128- 131
What role did Eleanor Gibson play in our understanding of infant depth perception?
a-d. Complete Questions for Further Discussion 1-4 on page 129.
3. What is the difference between monocular and binocular cues in depth perception? Why are pictorial depth cues an example of monocular cues?
4. How does linear perspective create an illusion of depth?
5. How does relative size create an illusion of depth?
6. How does interposition create an illusion of depth?
7. How does aerial perspective create an illusion of depth?
8. How does texture gradient create an illusion of depth?
9. How does motion parallax create an illusion of depth?
10.How does accommodation give us a cue for distance? When does accomodation become less noticeable?
11. Describe the binocular cue convergence. Do the finger experiment for yourself to illustrate.
12. Explain binocular disparity. Hold something out in front of you at arm's length. Close one eye to look at it and now close the other one. What do you notice in regard to the object when you do this?
Friday, January 8
Aim: How do we experience depth perception?
QUIZ ON MONDAY
TED TALKS - Pheremones
PRACTICE two videos on hearing
Watch Video in the process of vision (part 1 and 2 are helpful to understand the vision)
PRACTICE - click on green arrow
NYT article on brains plasticity and vision
PRACTICE TEST DISTRIBUTED ON FRIDAY
Topics- Sensation, Perception, Psychophysics of Sensation and Perception with focus on Vision and Audition, Optical Illusions and What they tell us, Gestalt Principles,
PSYCHO PHYSICS ON QUIZLET
VISION ON QUIZLET