Download Psychology Unit 2 over Chapters 3 and 4 Chapter 3 “Biological

Psychology Unit 2 over Chapters 3 and 4
Chapter 3 “Biological Psychology”
Chapter 4 “Sensation and Perception”
(pages 107-149)
(pages 151-193)
Learning Objectives:
 Identify the basic principles that apply to all
senses
 Track how our minds build up perceptions
 Analyze the scientific support for and against ESP
 Explain how the eye starts the visual process
 Identify the different kinds of visual perception
 Describe different visual problems
 Explain how the ear starts the auditory process
 Identify the different kinds of auditory perception
 Identify how we sense and perceive tastes and
odors
 Describe the three different body senses
 Explain how pain perception differs from touch
perception
Learning Objectives:
 Identify the parts of the nervous system that play a role in
sensation and perception
 Track the parts of the nervous system that play a role in
motor functions
 Clarify the relationship between the nervous system and
the body
 Identify the parts of the brain that play a role in emotion
 Clarify how the autonomic nervous system works in
emergency and everyday situations
 Describe what hormones are and how they affect behavior
 Distinguish the parts of neurons and what they do
 Describe electrical responses of neurons and what makes
them possible
 Explain how neurons use neurotransmitters to
communicate with each other
 Describe the relationship between mind and the brain
 Identify the different brain stimulating, recording, &
imagining techniques
 Evaluate results demonstrating the brain’s localization of
function
 Describe genes and how they influence observable traits
 Explain the concept of heritability and the misconceptions
surrounding it
 Recognize when the brain changes most and least
Terms for Success:
 Central Nervous System
 Endocrine System: Glands and
(108-109)
Functions (120-123)
 Lobes (109-112)
 Neurons: parts and functions
(124-125)
 Spinal Cord & Neurons
(116)
 Neurotransmitters (127-128)
 Somatic Nervous System  Brain Mapping and Imagining
(116-117)
(130-132)
 Limbic System (119-120)
 Right & Left Brain functions
(Table 3.3 on 135)Heredity:
 Automatic Nervous
Genotype and Phenotype
System (120)
(137-138)
 Neurogenesis (145)
Day to Day for Chapters 3-4:
Monday, Oct 25: Brain & Behavior
Tuesday, Oct 26: Brain & Emotion
Wednesday, Oct 27: QUIZ (p 108-123); Nerve Cells
Thursday, Oct 28: Mapping the Mind
Friday, Oct 29: Nature and Nurture
Monday, Nov 1: Quiz (p. 124-145); Sensation & Perception
Wednesday, Nov 3: Seeing: the Visual System
**Schedule is Tentative and can change
FOR BOTH CHAPTERS: THE GRAPHICS,
ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, CHARTS are
going to be essential in “chunking” the
information.
Terms for Success:
 Perception (152)
 Threshold (153-154)
 Transduction (153)
 Perception & Brain (157)
 Eye & Light (163)
 Parts of the eye (164-165)
 Gestalt Principle (168)
 Visual perception (170)
 Depth perception (171)
 Synesthesia (173)
 The Auditory System &
The Parts of the Ear (176)
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5 basic senses (180)
Smell & Taste (180)
Somatosensory
System (184)
Vestibular sense
(187-188)
Day to Day for Chapter3-4:
Thursday, Nov 4: Project
Friday, Nov 5: Project
Monday, Nov 8: Hearing: the Auditory System
Tuesday, Nov 9: Quiz (p. 152-176 ); Smell & Taste
Wednesday, Nov 10: Body Senses
Thursday, Nov 11: Quiz (p. 176-189); catch up
Friday, Nov 12: Review
Monday, Nov 15: TEST