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UNIT 4 – Sensation and Perception
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Sensation versus Perception
Thresholds
 Absolute, Subliminal, Difference
 Demonstration – Weber’s Law
 Activity – Critical thinking and thresholds
Understanding transduction
Vision
 Anatomy of the eye
 Activity – locating the blind spot
 Activity – Examining peripheral vision
 Theories of color vision
o Explain the difference between the YoungHelmholtz Trichromatic theory and the Opponent
Processing Theory
Hearing
 Amplitude vs. Frequency
 Anatomy of the ear
 Activity – Sound localization
 Types of hearing loss
Touch, Taste and Smell
Body position and movement
 Vestibular sense
 Kinesthesis
Group Activities – Sensation Fair
 Students experience and tests some of the concepts
discussed during the sensation chapter
Perception
 Selective attention / Cocktail party effect
 Gestalt principles
 Depth perception
o Examine Eleanor Gibson’s visual cliff experiment
o Monocular cues
o Binocular cues
 Analyze the drawings of MC Escher for perceptual cues
NOTECARD Terms for Unit 4
QUIZ
Sensation to
Sensory
Adaptation
Transduction to
Opponent
Process Theory
Gestalt to
Retinal
Disparity
TEST on UNIT
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UNIT 4 (Sensation)
Sensation
Perception
Selective attention
Inattentional blindness
Change blindness
Absolute threshold
Signal Detection Theory
Subliminal threshold
priming
Difference threshold
Weber’s Law
Sensory adaptation
*Transduction
* Pupil (B99)
*Iris (B99)
*Lens (B99)
*Retina
*Accommodation
Rods
Cones
*Blind spot
*Fovea
Feature detectors
*Young – Helmholtz Trichromatic
Theory
Opponent-Process Theory
audition
Conduction hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss
(aka nerve deafness)
*Cochlear implant
Kinesthesis
Vestibular Sense
*Gate-control theory
Sensory interaction
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UNIT 4 (Perception…begins on
p.151)
*Gestalt
Figure-ground
*Grouping
Similarity (M 152)
Proximity (M 152)
Continuity (M 152)
Connectedness (M 152)
Closure ( M 152)
schemata
Depth perception
Visual cliff
*Binocular cues
Retinal disparity
Depth perception
Size constancy
Shape constancy
Perceptual
adaptation
Perceptual set
Figure-Ground
Grouping
Similarity
Proximity
Continuity
Visual cliff
Constancy
Gestalt