Download AP Psy. wk8 2016-17 - Northside Middle School

LESSON PLANS – AP Psychology
INSTRUCTOR: Greg Kremer
SCHOOL: Key West High School
FOR WEEK BEGINNING: 10-3-2016
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
ROOM: 4-204
QUARTER: 1st
GRADE 12
WEEK 8
What ARE SENSATION AND PERCEPTION?
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
IWBAT describe how vision works.
IWBAT Explain audition
IWBAT Describe tactile sense
MATERIALS: TEXT: PSYCHOLOGY (9th edition), BY Myers
Film: Zimbardo- Past, Present, and Promise
ASSESSMENTS:
Class participation
class notes
Participant observation handout
Assignments
ACTIVITIES
MONDAY, Oct.3
Discuss: Sensation, Perception, bottom up and top down processing, absolute
threshold, signal detection theory, subliminal, priming, difference threshold, Weber’s
law, sensory adaptation.
Crash Course
HW: (Due Tuesday) p. 236 to 240- Word Search: wavelength, hue, intensity pupil, iris,
lens, retina, accommodation, rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot, fovia.
TUESDAY, Oct. 4
Discuss Vision
Optical Illusions
HW. p. 240-244 (Due Wednesday) p. 240-244 Feature detection, parallel
processing, Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory, opponent- process theory.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5
Review Feature detection, parallel processing, Young-Helmholtz trichromatic
theory, opponent- process theory.
See brain games
HW: Read pages 245 to 248 ( Due Thursday)
Word Search: audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, inner ear, eardrum,
hammer, anvil, stirrup, cochlea, auditory nerve.
THURSDAY, Oct. 6
Discuss audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, inner ear, eardrum, hammer,
anvil, stirrup, cochlea, auditory nerve.
HW: Word Search- (Due Feriday) P. 249 to 258 Word Search: place theory, frequency
theory, conduction hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, cochlear implant.
Touch, kinesthesis, vestibular sense, pain, gate control theory.
FRIDAY, Oct. 7
Discuss: place theory, frequency theory, conduction hearing loss, sensorineural
hearing loss, cochlear implant.
Touch, kinesthesis, vestibular sense, pain, gate control theory.