Unit 4 - Sensation and Perception
"All of our thoughts - ideas - are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression on the mind." -- Killroy J. Olster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Unit 4 Vocabulary and Calendar
Unit 4 Powerpoint (All Modules)
Unit 4 Crash Course: Sensation and Perception
Unit 4 Crash Course: Homunculus!
Unit 4 Crash Course: Perceiving is Believing
Module 16
Module 16 PowerPoint
Objective 4-1: Discuss the basic principles of sensation and perception, including bottom-up/top-down processing, transduction, selective attention, change blindness, absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation
Module 17
Module 17 PowerPoint
Objective 4-2: Describe principles and influences on perception, including perceptual sets, context and cultural differences, and emotion or motivation
Module 18
Module 18 PowerPoint
Objective 4-3: Describe the sensory process of vision, including the energy (light waves, transduction), relevant anatomical structures (cornea, pupil, iris, lens, retina, optic nerve, blind spot, fovea, rods and cones, occipital lobe), and theories of color vision (opponent process theory, trichromatic theory)
Module 19
Module 19 PowerPoint
Objective 4-4: Discuss the principles of visual perception, with specific attention paid to Gestalt principles like figure-ground, grouping, mono and binocular depth perception cues, the visual cliff, perceptual constancies (color, brightness, shape, size), and perceptual adaptation
Module 20
Module 20 PowerPoint
Objective 4-5: Discuss the principles of audition, including the nature of energy transduction (sound waves, frequency), the anatomy of the ear (middle ear, hammer, anvil, stirrup, inner ear, cochlea, semicircular canals, vestibular sacs), and theories of auditory perception (place theory, frequency theory)
Module 21
Module 21 PowerPoint
Objective 4-6: Describe the other sensory processes (touch, pain, taste, smell, vestibular, kinethesis), including the nature of transduction (chemical sense, gate control theory), the relevant anatomical structures, and pathways in the brain for these systems