Download Unit 3 Guide: Sensation and Perception (Modules 8, 9) Module 8

Unit 3 Guide: Sensation and Perception
(Modules 8, 9)
Module 8:
Learning Goals:
(These are broken into mini-units: vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch)
- Sensation: What is it? How do the basic principles of sensation (thresholds, signal
detection, sensory adaptation, and selective attention) work?
- Vision: Explain how structures and receptor cells in the eye work to detect light
waves and change them into neural impulses.
- Sound: what are the structures of the ear and how do they work to detect sound
waves and change them into neural impulses?
- Taste, Smell, Touch: how do receptor cells in the nose, tongue, and skin allow us to
sense smells, tastes and touch?
Terms to know:
Sensation:
- sensation:
- top-down processing:
- bottom-up processing:
- perception:
- absolute threshold:
- difference threshold:
- signal detection theory:
- sensory adaptation:
- selective attention:
Vision:
- structures of the eye:
-cornea:
- retina:
- iris:
- receptor cells:
- pupil:
- rods:
- lens:
- cones:
optic nerve:
blind spot:
- trichromatic (three-color) theory:
- opponent process theory:
Sound:
- pitch:
- structure of the ear/sound processing:
- auditory canal:
- eardrum:
- cochlea:
- hair cells:
- auditory nerve:
Taste, Smell, Touch:
- olfactory cells:
- kinesthetic sense:
- vestibular sense:
Module 9:
Learning Goals:
- Explain Gestalt principles and apply them to examples of visual perception.
- Explain why we can see in 3-dimension
- Describe the types of perceptual constancy and apply them to examples of visual
perception
- Explain how/why visual illusions happen
Terms to Know:
- perception:
- gestalt:
- grouping:
- depth perception:
- binocular cues:
- monocular cues:
- relative size:
- relative motion:
- interposition:
- relative height:
- texture gradient:
- relative clarity:
- linear perspective:
- retinal disparity:
- convergence:
- perceptual constancy
- size:
- shape:
- lightness:
- perceptual set
- schemas
- extrasensory perception
- illusions
Müller-Lyer illusion:
the Ames Room: