Day

Objective
-To compete vocabulary for
Unit 4

Activities

Questions

Vocab

-Students will work on Unit 4

Vocabulary
-Textbook Check
-Reading Quiz
-Students will take notes over
the Introduction to Sensation
and Perception

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-How does our attention limit

or expand what we
experience?
-How do evolutionary
processes influence our
sensation and perception?
-How do our expectations,
contexts, emotions and
motivations impact our
perceptions?

-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.
-Identify the major historical
figures in sensation and
perception (e.g., Gustav
Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst
Weber, Torsten Wiesel).

-Students will take notes over

the Visual system (based on
light and the eye)
-Students will work on
labeling a diagram of the eye

-how do they eye and the brain

process visual information?

-sensation
-perception
-bottom-up processing
-top-down processing
-selective attention
-inattentional blindness
-change blindness
Transduction
-psychophysics
-absolute threshold
-signal detection theory
-subliminal
-priming
-difference threshold
-Webers Law
-sensory adaption
-wavelength
-hue
-intensity
-pupil
-iris
-lens
-retina
-accommodation
-rods
-cones
-optic nerve
-blind spot
-fovea
-feature detectors
-parallel processing

-Describe sensory processes

(e.g., hearing, vision, touch,

-Students will review the

process of color vision with a

--how do the theories of color

vision work together to explain

-Discuss basic principles of

sensory transduction,
including absolute threshold,
difference threshold, signal
detection, and sensory
adaptation.
-Discuss the role of attention
in behavior
-Identify the major historical
figures in sensation and
perception (e.g., Gustav
Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst
Weber, Torsten Wiesel).

-Young-Helmholtz
Trichromatic Color

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.
-Explain common sensory
disorders (e.g., visual and
hearing impairments).
-Describe general principles of
organizing and integrating
sensation to promote
stable awareness of the
external world (e.g., Gestalt
principles, depth
perception).
-Discuss how experience and
culture can influence
perceptual processes (e.g.,
perceptual set, context
effects).
-Explain the role of top-down
processing in producing
vulnerability to illusion
-Identify the major historical
figures in sensation and
perception (e.g., Gustav
Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst
Weber, Torsten Wiesel).
-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

pen demonstration
-Review Color Blindness
-Students will view clips from
the Myth Busters Pirate
themed episode over rods &
cones and the pirate eye
patch
-Students will begin to review
perceptual cues

how we see color?

-how do perceptual constancies
help us organize our sensations
into meaningful perceptions?

Theory
-opponent process
theory

-Students will finish a review

of perceptual cues
-Students will work in a group
to complete an evaluation of
works from MC Escher
-Students will create a picture
using colors to demonstrate
their understanding of
perceptual cues (HMWK)

-how do perceptual constancies

help us organize our sensations
into meaningful perceptions?

-gestalt
-figure-ground
-grouping
-depth perception
-visual cliff
-retinal disparity
-monocular cues
-phi phenomenon
-perceptual constancy
-color constancy
-perceptual adaptation

-Students will take notes over

the auditory system and will
fill out a diagram of the ear
-Students will review Place
Theory and Frequency Theory
-Students will review the
different types of deafness
and learn about cochlear

-How do we locate sounds?

-How we understand pitch?

-audition
-frequency
-pitch
-middle ear
-cochlea
-inner ear
-Sensorineural hearing
loss

brain for each of the

senses.
-Explain common sensory
disorders (e.g., visual and
hearing impairments).
Assessment

-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.
Review

Review

Assessment

implants

-conduction hearing
loss
-Cochlear implant
-Place theory
-frequency theory
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-Vocabulary Due
-Kahoot! Vocabulary review
quiz
-Vocabulary Quiz
-Students will review the
other senses (taste, smell,
touch) & pain
-Students will create review
sheets that will be copied by
other members of the class

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-How do we sense touch, taste,

and smell?
-How do all of our senses
interact?

-gate control theory

-kinesthesia
-Vestibular sense
-sensory interaction
-embodied cognition

-Highlights & class discussion

review
-Sensation and Perception lab
activities
-Crash Course videos
-Kahoot! Review (pairs)
-review of application style
questions
-Unit 4 Exam

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IV. Sensation and Perception (68%)

Everything that organisms know about the world is first encountered when stimuli inthe environment activate sensory organs,
initiating awareness of the external world.Perception involves the interpretation of the sensory inputs as a cognitive process.
AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and
sensory adaptation.
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.
Explain common sensory disorders (e.g., visual and hearing impairments).
Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote stable awareness of the external world (e.g.,
Gestalt principles, depth
perception).
Discuss how experience and culture can influence perceptual processes (e.g., perceptual set, context effects).
Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion.
Discuss the role of attention in behavior.
Challenge common beliefs in parapsychological phenomena.
Identify the major historical figures in sensation and perception (e.g., Gustav Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst Weber, Torsten
Wiesel).