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Learning Objective 6
Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6 Assignments
(AP Psychology Scoring Criteria 4 & 5)
Lesson One (Pages 216-221)
October 31
Basic Principles of Sensation and Perception
Vocabulary: Sensation, perception, bottom-up processing, top-down processing, transduction,
psychophysics, absolute threshold, signal detection theory, subliminal, priming,
Learning Objectives:
6-1: What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-down
processing?
6-2: What three steps are basic to all our sensory systems?
6-3: What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute
threshold have any influence on us?
Lesson Two (Pages 222-226)
November 1
Sensory Adaptation, Perceptual Set, Context effects
Vocabulary: Sensory adaptation, perceptual set
Learning Objectives:
6-4: What is the function of sensory adaptation?
6-5: How do our expectations, contexts, emotions, and motivation influence our
perceptions?
Lesson Three (Pages 226-232)
Vision
November 2
Vocabulary: wavelength, hue, intensity, pupil, iris, lens, retina, accommodation, rods, cones, optic
nerve, blind spot, fovea, feature detectors, parallel processing
Learning Objectives:
6-6: What is the energy that we see as visible light, and how does the eye transform light energy into
neural messages?
6-7: How do the eye and the brain process visual information?
Lesson Four (Pages 233-239)
Color vision, Visual organization
November 3
Vocabulary: opponent-process theory, gestalt, figure-ground, grouping, depth-perception, visual cliff,
binocular cues, retinal disparity, monocular cues, phi phenomenon
Learning Objectives:
6-8: What theories help us understand color vision?
6-9: How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization, and how do figure
ground and grouping principles contribute to our perceptions?
6-10: How do we use binocular and monocular cues to perceive the world in three
dimensions and perceive motion?
Lesson Five (Pages 239-243)
November 4
Chapter 6 Reading Quiz 1
Perceptual constancy, Experience and Visual Perception
Vocabulary: perceptual constancy, color constancy, perceptual adaptation
Learning Objectives:
6-11: How do perceptual constancies help us organize our sensations into meaningful perceptions?
6-12: What does research on restored vision, sensory restriction, and perceptual adaptation
reveal about the effects of experience on perception?
Lesson Six (Pages 243-248)
Hearing
November 7
Vocabulary: audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, cochlea, inner ear, sensorineural hearing loss,
conduction hearing loss, cochlear implant, place theory, frequency theory
Learning Objectives:
6-13: What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound, and how
does the ear transform sound energy into neural messages?
6-14: What theories help us understand pitch perception?
6-15: How do we locate sounds?
Lesson Seven (Pages 248-252)
Other Senses
November 8
Vocabulary: Gate control theory
Learning Objectives:
6-16: How do we sense touch?
6-17: How can we best understand and control pain?
Lesson Eight (Pages 252-259)
November 9
Taste/Smell, Body Position & Movement, and ESP
Vocabulary: Sensory interaction, embodied cognition, kinesthesis, vestibular sense
Learning Objectives:
6-18: How do we experience taste and smell, and how do they interact?
6-19: How do we sense our body’s position and movement?
6-20: What are the claims of ESP, and what have most research psychologists concluded
after putting these claims to the test?
Ch. 6
Learning Objective 6 Assessments
Notebook Check (Nov. 10) Chapter 6 Reading Quiz 2
Chapter 6 Exam (November 14)
What should I know from Chapter 6?
a. Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold,
difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation.
b. Describe sensory processes (e.g., hearing, vision, touch, taste, smell, vestibular,
kinesthesis, pain), including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant
anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the
senses.
c. Explain common sensory disorders (e.g., visual and hearing impairments).
d. Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote
stable awareness of the external world (e.g., Gestalt principles, depth
perception).
e. Discuss how experience and culture can influence perceptual processes (e.g.,
perceptual set, context effects).
f. Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion.
g. Discuss the role of attention in behavior.
h. Challenge common beliefs in parapsychological phenomena.
i. Identify the major historical figures in sensation and perception (e.g., Gustav
Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst Weber, Torsten Wiesel).
(CollegeBoard, 2014)